We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?

Do link to the Ark every week!

You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page.

Cats

• The Poor Mouth: Mimi makes Robyn a happy cat
• houseofchaos: Pouncedaries shifting
• Blog d’Elisson: Matata, Meet “Cuddles”” and Sammy
• Sisu: Tiny and Baby Cakes
• Melange: The Spar and Spit and Three For The Price Of Two
• composite drawlings: Friday Catblog: Rashomeow
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday: Quality Control – Sasha
• Manx Mnews: There But For The Grace Of God Go I
• Texas Oasis: Catblogging – Henry’s least favorite place
• Val’s Bien: Eil, Computer Techniques
• enrevanche: Mister Gato – Try always to blend in to your surroundings
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Where’s the fire?
• No Deep Thoughts: Friday Cat Blogging: My Chair – Rafe, Rhett and RicoLoco
• Scribblings: Feline Friday: The Art of Posting
• Two Black Cats: Hermes is growing up
• pages turned: Friday cat blogging: Ellie
• The Conservative Cat: Ferdinand T. Cat – Catblogging: The Full-Body Tuck Circular Sleep Position
• Catymology: In which I become a famous feline poet
• Stereophile: A Big Hunk o’ Love and Oh, Please!
• Mind of Mog: Dumb Cat –
• The Wide Awake Cafe: Sabby is Wide Awake
• Life @ GracefulSymmetry: Feline Friday: Windingo has his cone off and catheter out…
• anniemiz: Friday Cat Blogging: Smudge Enjoys Some Afternoon Sun
• This Blog is Full of Crap: Friday Catblogging: Check out the Catcams
• Elijah’s Rescue: Shelter Cat Spotlight: Meet Joey
• Sugarfused: Friday Cat Blogging: Elvis
• Jelly Pizza: Spring has Sprung…
• Bad Kitty Cats: Biscuit The Devil Cat And Snot Face Mad Child
• Leslie’s Omnibus: Traveling Companions: The Divine Miss Marilyn wants to know…
• Lincoln State Cat Club: Tummy Tuesdays
• you’re On Notice: Friday Cat Blog: A Confession
• Lawyers, Guns and Money: Friday Cat Blogging: Nelson and Starbuck
• What Did You Eat?: WCB: It’s Me!!!! Sundance, Upsie and the Squirrels boarded 3/31
• Shrimp and Grits: Friday cat: Cat TARDIS boarded 3/31
• The Hidden Paw: Boots and Tess host Weekend Cat Blogging #95; boarded 3/31
• Simply Left Behind: Friday Kitten BloggingThumbPer boarded 3/31
• Elms in the Yard: Cheeto, Close Up boarded 3/31
• IMAO: Carnival of the Cats #158 April Fool’s Edition–Part 1

Birds

• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Non-cat Blogging: this rooster walked right in
• Rurality: Spring chickens
• A DC Birding Blog: Loose Feathers #92
• Natural Visions: The Pond at Elephant Head
• Passion-Photo: Le rêve….
• The Nemesis Bird: Far Flying Godwits
• Pocahantes County Fair: Bird Blogging – An Alternative to Cat Blogging; boarded 3/31
• Path to Freedom Journal: Around the Urban Homestead: El Chiquito (or La Chiquita) boarded 3/31

Other Vertebrates

• The Scratching Post: Jacob Helps with the Laundry
• Blog d’Elisson: Reptilian Revisitation
• KeesKennis: My Darwin
• The Daily Kos: Marine Life Series: Baleen
• What Did You Eat?: WCB: It’s Me!!!! Sundance, Upsie and the Squirrels boarded 3/31
• Smokey Mountain Breakdown: Goats in Chairs…..Happy Sunday – BossyToe and Phoebe boarded 4/1
• The Daily Kos: Marine Life Series: Mermaids boarded 4/1

Dogs

• composite drawlings: Dogblog: Clyde’s Ride
• Val’s Bien: The Outdoors is Calling Casey and Trixie
• KeesKennis: Too much skin or too little dog
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog: Trail of Memory – Sasha and Dexter
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature: The Fiathful Hound gets groomed….
• The Hidden Paw: Boots and Tess host Weekend Cat Blogging #95; boarded 3/31
• On Location With Rick Lee: Dassagoodogggiiie…. boarded 3/31
• Mickey’s Musings: Carnival of the Dogs
• Sweetnicks: Weekend Dog Blogging #79

Invertebrates

• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod: Octopus mototi: Tasteful and striking use of color
• Niches: Large Moth
• Ontogeny: Friday Ant Zen: Mystrium mysticum
• Science Notes: Friday cephalopod blogging: Chromatophores in juvenile squid boarded 3/31

In Memoriam

• First Draft: Rest in Peace Teddy
• bloggo chicago: Friday Cat Blogging #50: A Tribute to Chooch
• Real Art: Farewell Paz (1990-2007)

Didn’t Make It

• Paleoblog: New Mongolian Raptors

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

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Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings. Also, there are more doggies at Weekend Dog Blogging hosted this weekend by Sweetnicks.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 157th edition , 3/25, is up at Scribblings . The 158th edition will be hosted on 4/1 by IMAO . There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging #95 hosted on 3/31-4/1by The Hidden Paw . Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.

Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 45th edition is up and hosted by Journey Through Grace. The 46th edition will be hosted on 4/5 by lovely dark and deep.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 18th edition is up and hosted by Pharyngula. The 19th edition will be hosted at the end of March by Burning Silo.

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users:

Over the past month or so Haloscan started (the end of July) handling of trackbacks has improved though it is still pretty broken for carnival type posts. Now, instead of rejecting every attempt to ping it accepts single pings for a while and then will start rejecting them. I will keep trying to track back to Haloscan boarders but can make no guarantees for any particular week.

Note for Typepad Users:

Typepad continues to behave similar to Haloscan for trackbacks. I been able to get trackbacks to most, if not all, Typepad based boarders. I have to do it one at a time and wait a while in between pings but Typepad does not go into semi-permanent rejection mode like Haloscan.