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….?
Visit all the boarders, Link to the Ark and check back for updates through Sunday afternoon!
You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page.
Cats
- Blog d’Elisson: No Explanation Required and Attention!
- House of Chaos: Dexterity ~ Bean Sidhe
- Sisu: Tiny, Babe and Tiny keeping tabs…
- Val’s Bien: Scratching Table
- Texas Oasis: Purrsday Night – Swheat Treats
- Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Mikey
- Dragonheart’s Domain: Frootbat Friday ~ My Box Of Life
- Manx Mnews: Ping Takes A Break
- The Poor Mouth: I Love……..Mimi, Robyn, Ted and Bebe
- Watermark: Hey, You! Yes, You! You Personal (Cat) Blogger!
- Lab Kat: Friday Cat Blogging: Napping Edition ~ Coby: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- TacJammer: Hunter, Prey – the Return
- This, That & The Other Thing: Feline Friday ~ Kosmo and Mouse On Bags
- composite drawlings: Tuesday Tummy #14 ~ Maus offers a little peek and Friday Catblog ~ a Puzzler!
- Chasing Grace: Wish I Was a Cat
- anniemiz: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Foster Kittens!!!!
- Dolphin’s Dock: Feline Friday ~ Happy Birthday Hobbes!
- Survival of the Furriest: Fun Friday ~ Hiding ManCat
- It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Autumn
- Bad Kitty Cats: Braum And The Mystery Kitten
- A Blog for Emma: Friday Fun…with NIP!
- The Yellow Doggerel Democrat: Friday Age And Youth Blogging ~ Tabitha and Samantha
- The Whole Kitten Kaboodle: Friday Fears of a Formerly Feral
- Political Animal: Friday Catblogging ~ Domino and Inkblot
- Dohiyi Mir: Friday Catblogging ~ Sam, Lola and Vinnie
- Purrchance To Dream: To the Jaz Cave!
- Later On: Megs is sleeping with one eye open (click on pic)
- Michael and Jaspenelle: Feline Friday ~ Heater God
- Perfectly Parker: Raise A Paw Contest
- Life from a Cat’s Perspective: Wordless Wednesday ~ Samantha and Furiends
- Mind of Mog: So Soon
- Music and Cats: Feline Friday ~ Parlor Panther boarded 11/17
- CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging and more ~ Luna and CatSynth HQ boarded 11/17
- Imeowza: Caturday boarded 11/18
- iInfidel: So It’s Caturday boarded 11/18
- meeyauw: LOL Cat Bible ~ Lectionary Readings… Hunter boarded 11/18
- Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic: Xander Cat boarded 11/18
Birds
- Greg laden’s Blog: I and the Bird #62
- the skwib: Doug the neurotic creates a corollary…Chicken
- Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Wind and Water and small stuff
- Pet Monologues: Meleagridinae (turkey) and recipe
- Susan Gets Native: Raptor & A yellow-rumped warbler and more
- Pocahantes County Fair: White-breasted Nuthatch
- A DC Birding Blog: Loose Feathers #124 ~ House Finch and more birding news
Other Vertebrates
- The Daily Kos: Marine Life Series – Monkfish
- What Do I Know?: Friday Cow Blogging
- TacJammer: Hunter, Prey – the Return
- Resonant Enigma: Warm Belly
- Suger Mountain Farm: Fall Piglets Nursing
- Blue Ridge Blog: A tale of two piggies…
Dogs
- Books at Eclectics: dog tired…Disraeli the Chocolate Lab
- Val’s Bien: Casey at White Rock
- composite drawlings: Dogblog ~ Friendliness is next to Dogliness: Irish Wolfhounds and Clyde
- Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog: Mundane Mystery ~ Sasha and Dexter
- Farmgirl Fare: Exercising With A View
- X-TREME Tea Time: Friday Creature ~ Moe. a Boston Terrier
- Athenamama: Jackie Makes A Kill boarded 11/18
Invertebrates
- Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Wind and Water and small stuff
- 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature ~ Owl Butterfly
- Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod ~ They’re like best friends! Sepia officinalis
- Ontogeny: carton nest of Azteca ants
In Memoriam
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Didn’t Make It
- Pharyngula: Nigersaurus, a Cretaceous hedge-trimmer
- A Blog Around The Clock: Extreme Dinosaur ~ Nigersaurus, the Mesozoic Cow!
Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)
- Mad Kane’s Humor Blog: First (And Last) Visit
- Catymology: A very poetic leopard
- Pet Monologues: WaMu! Woof! and Rural Records
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
Cat folks: remember to submit your links to:
- Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday
- the 190th edition, 11/11, is up at Justin’s Random Thoughts
- The 191st edition, 11/18, will be hosted by Pet’s Garden Blog
- Weekend Cat Blogging which goes up every weekend
- The 127th edition, 11/10-11, is up at What Did You Eat?
- The 128th edition, 11/17-11/18, will be hosted by Paulchen’s Food Blog
- Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos which goes up every weekend
- The 18th edition, 11/11, is up at This, That & The Other Thing
- The 19th edition, 11/18, will be hosted by The Catboys Realm
- Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map
Birders: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks.
- The 62nd edition, 11/15, is up at Greg Laden’s Blog
- The 63rd edition, 11/29, will be hosted by The Greenbelt
For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles.
- The 26th edition, October, is up at The Other 95%
- The 27th edition, November, will be hosted by The Hawk Owl’s Nest
For other current carnivals check out The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival
Today’s carnivals
Oekologie #11 is up on 10000 birds. I and the Bird # 62 is up on Greg Laden. Accretionary Wedge #3 is up on The Other 95%. Change of Shift: Vol. 2, Number 11 is up on Emergiblog. Friday Ark…
Sid Blumenthal’s “unprecedented decline of U.S. prestige” is so yesterday
Like Johnny-come-lately British PM Gordon Brown, who’s scrambling to catch up with what WSJ eds dub the new Continental zeitgeist, Tiny — above keeping tabs on the backyard zeitgeist from atop the woodpile — has no truck with anti-Americanism in
FUZZY FRIDAY
The Friday Ark hath every kind of creature.
Now, Matata leads off in a Double Feature!
Friday Cow Blogging
I don’t know if you can see, but underneath the black cow there is a tiny white calf. When we walked through this pasture, with our dogs on leads, we saw several small calves, about the size of large dogs.
Friday Creature
This week, I’ve got an owl butterfly (no, I haven’t made it to the rain forests lately — it’s another critter from the Tennessee Aquarium’s butterfly exhibit). Stay warm, everyone, and enjoy the last weekend before all the holiday madness…
Hey, You! Yes, You! You Personal (Cat) Blogger!
For all you personal bloggers out there, we have two new posts up at Blogging Blog. Anne of Ample Sanity offers some links to free and excellent graphics for your site; and Skellie of skelliewag.org gives us her Top 5 Traffic Building Tips for Personal…
Friday Cat Blogging
Mikey
Bugger off!
[Editor: Mikey hates everyone, but me especially. I give him food and he hisses and spits the entire time. He goes to the feeding area and takes his customary spot, but when I’m putting down the food in front of him, as alway…
Tracking: http://haloscan.com/tb/labkat/7791171834043819094
Sasha and Dexter get out most days, following their usual path,and so each photo becomes a mundane mystery.
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/11/extreme_dinosaur_nigersaurus_t.php
Blog Carnivals
Friday’s Ark * 165 This is a “Friday Cat Blogging” carnival, but not at all restricted to cats. Rather, animals of all kinds are depicted. Cat to Art! #2 This is a carnival of people’s efforts to “showcase pets…
Friday Creature
This is Moe, one of Dear Boyfriend’s mother’s two Boston terriers. Don’t be decived by the moment I captured– sweet is not exactly the word I would use to describe them. Nothing against the Bostons, I simply don’t associate…
Thanks. I linked back.
So Soon
It was just last week that I cleaned the sofa cushion slipcovers. Note clean covers not yet on the cushions, stacked nearby, but the cats are laying on them.
The first shot was in the morning, second in the evening after the boys had a chance to get d…
Carnivalia and an open thread
More carnivals, including one that is new to me! I and the Bird #62 Friday Ark #165 Accretionary Wedge #3 (a geology carnival!) And we have a new Tangled Bank coming up at From Archaea to Zeaxanthol next Wednesday—send those…
one “didn’t make it and three exceptions. reservations are getting to be more important than ever!
Feline Friday: Parlor panther
I can’t explain why this photo of Sergei inspired me to look for poetry, but in my search I found (again) Pablo Neruda’s wonderful Oda al Gato (in translation, because my Spanish is not so good). Here’s an excerpt:
O little
emperor w…
Welcome Dr. Tundra (& links)
A hearty welcome to The Skwib’s old friend and psychotropic adventurer, Dr. Maximillian Tundra. He’s agreed to help Mark pick up some of the blogging slack around here, while he is off writing novels and whatnot.
A few carnivals that you…
Caturday
Me, up close and dirty natch. Real dirty. Lay on the couch and get it dirty dirty. Perfect. Mog loves me, yes she does.
Them, may be clean, may be dirty:
Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos at Kashim & Orthello
Optional Theme – On Accident Or On Purp…
So It’s Caturday
Caturday is so over used even thou this is Caturday. I’m coming to get you. So pet me now. I am clean. Unlike Meowza.
Other kitties needing petting can be found at:
Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos at Kashim & Orthello
Optional Theme – On Ac…
Jackie Makes a Kill
A hapless giraffe somehow found it’s way into our living room this past week, but I am afraid he didn’t make it very far before he was taken down by one of the most prolific hunters in our household. Jackie…
We have a Most Holy Cat: Hunter! And unbelievable as it sounds, Bad Kitty Cats is mentioned in the LOLCat Bible reading for this weekend.
Hunter, Prey — the Return
Mycah continues her observation of the local wildlife… and it continues to observe her. [Click for larger — 1024×768. Too big? Too bad. Get a bigger monitor.] I’ve never really thought I would want or need a video camera, but only a video would…
Very interesting… as always! Cheers from -Switzerland-.