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Friday Ark #66

Merry Christmas
and
Happy New Year

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....?

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• Leave a comment or trackback to this post,
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Visit each border and come back regularly Friday-Sunday to visit new boarders. And do link to the Friday Ark whether you use trackbacks or not.

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.(39 shouts as of 12/15)

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 the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 92nd edition will be hosted this week by Watermark. There are more weekly cats at eatstuff's Weekend Cat Blogging which has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants.

• Extra, Extra: Laurence has started a The Catbloggers Frappr Map. Go shout out!

Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. Send your links for the 13th edition edition is up and hosted by Wood Song.

New for the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The third edition is up at Urban Dragon Hunters.
The 4th edition is scheduled for December 31 and will be hosted by bootstrap analysis. Mail submissions to nannothemis AT gmail.com

Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.

NB: Trackbacks to Typepad sites seem to be completely throttled today.

Cats

• Niobium: Sleeping: Harley
• enrevanche: Mister Gato's Guide to Abundant Living
• Melange: The Two Men In My Life and Willow's Secret
• Pencil Roving: In the pink
• Mensa Barbie: The Sugar Plum Fairy
• Sisu: A Holiday Collection: Baby Cakes, Tiny, Babe, Daisy, Tiny and Babe
• i-pets.com blog: Friday Cat Blog: Trunk's Tree
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Peace on Earth And to All of Good Will
• Texas Oasis: Friday cats write a letter: Duncan and Henry
• It's Morning Somewhere: Friday cat model blogging: Cotton, Mango, Rocky Girl and Lady Fortuna
• Athenamama: Sisters to the End Part II: Athena and Ebby
• Middle Fork: Tinker is Only Pretending tobe Asleep
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Phil and Paz, Sammy and Frankie
• Manx Mnews: Feline Friday: Abby Hits A Playful Note
• Allan Thinks: I hope he doesn't forget me while I am gone.
• Caturday: There's No Kitty Like Snow Kitty: Fergus in Action
• IMAO: Friday Catblogging: Piper the Bizarre...
• Blog d'Elisson: Friday Random Ten Catblogging
• bloggo chicago: Friday Cat Blogging #14: Hopper
• No Deep Thoughts: Twas the Night Before Christmas With The Boyz
• This Blog is Full of Crap: An Early Catmas Present for Piper
• Lab Kat: Friday Cat Blogging: Coby waiting for Santa
• Prophet or Madman: Friday Pet Blogging: Substitute Kitty and "Sigh" Milo is blocked
• Beezer Song: Visions of ...
• composite drawlings: The Little Deers
• Ded Space: Friday cat blogging: cozy Christmas edition
• Leslie's Omnibus: Traveling Companions: The Divine Miss Marilyn and the Gifts of the Season
• TacJammer: Merry Christmas, catbloggers! : Bubba and Bows plus Lou's Present Creed
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday: Sasha, Lyra and Sergei are home alone with the Christmas tree.
• Lunar Obverse: Friday Cat Blogging! Smacky vs. the snow
• The Common Room: A Wintering Kitty
• A Shareware Life: Friday Catblogging: Outtakes
• Rook's Rant: Friday Cat Blogging: Here are the two scoundrels...
• The Conservative Cat: Catblogging: The Finger-Sniffing Syndrome
• Mike: Friday Cat: Merry Freaking Christmas: Psycho
• The Culture Ghost: Friday Cat Blogging: Charlotte
• Watermark: Kitty Greetings: Boo and Spike have gown tails...
• Mind of Mog: Lap Wars VI: Cheesecake for Christmas
• Cascade Exposures: The Kitties Kringle: Pepper, Seal and Spectra
• Cathouse Chat: She Poses!...Really! Pixel
• The Oubliette: Callie's Full Name: Caliadne Gwenhwyfar Bellatrix
• bloggg: Peace on earth...If they can do it...
• Ego: Photo Study Of Morris
• eatstuff: WCB 29 : BEST CHRISTMAS EVER!!!!!
• Pen Elayne: Friday Cat Blogging boarded 12/24
• Passion-Photo: Mon chat préféré..... boarded 12/24
• Wildrun: Call Me Fluffy boarded 12/24
• Elms in the Yard: Cool Downtown Cats boarded 12/24
• Dharma Vision: Somebody Is Getting In The Holiday Spirit boarded 12/24
• Farmgirl Fare: Weekend Cat Blogging #29: Now There's A Switch boarded 12/24
• A Guy In New York: Saturday catblogging: Luca boarded 12/24
• Eschaton: Christmas Eve Cat Blogging boarded 12/24
• Watermark: MERRY CATZMAS!Carnival of the Cats #92

Invertebrates

• Dope and the Slope: Holiday Invertebrate Blogging: Clement Moore Edition - Happy Holidays from the Order Lepidoptera.
• milkriverblog: Not Really A Cat Friday: Florida Tree Snail, Liguus fasciatus
• Firefly Forest Blog: Assassin Bugs

Dogs

• Tbogg: Thursday Night Basset Blogging: AThey've ttaken over the bed again
• Athenamama: Another Walk In The Park: Angel and Jacqueline
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog: another week of summer for Sasha and Taffy
• Birdchick Blog: Chet Baker decides it is time for a walk
• The Common Room: Christmas Dog
• Stand Up And Walk: Casey the Pooh
• The Alternate Brain: Friday Cattle Blogging: Princess Shayna
• Battlepanda: Friday Schnauzer Blogging: Almost Christmas Edition
• Liberty's Blog: Critters Caroling
• No More Mr. Nice Guy!: Friday Dog Blogging: Bran chillin' on the deck.
• Melange: Max: Priceless
• bloggg: Peace on earth...If they can do it...
• Doug Petch.Com: Blog Your Dog: Christmas Edition boarded 12/24
• Dohiyi Mir: Friday Dogblogging boarded 12/24
• Creek Running North: An Old Photo boarded 12/24
• Mickey's Musings: Carnival of the Dogs

Birds

• Living the Scientific Life: How to Stuff a Lory During the Holidays
• WoodSong: I And The Bird #13
• 10,000 Birds: Monk Parakeets in the Bronx
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature: Hyacinth Macaw
• Living the Scientific Life: Tufted Titmouse, (Parus bicolor) and much more in Birds in the News #39
• Farmgirl Fare: Daily Farm Photo:Just When I'd Given Up Hope
• Facing South: Friday Bird Blogging
• Mike's Birding & Digiscoping Blog: Happy Holidays
• Dharma Bums: Safe Among Predators: Cooper's Hawk Click to Enlarge!
• Bird brained stories!: Greatings of the season boarded 12/24

Other Vertebrates

• Outside In: Happy Seal
• Publius & Co.: Friday Rat Blogging: Meet Bandit
• Crazy Brave: Merry EndofYearMass
• Bob Harris: Friday Pudublogging: pudu in the grass, alas
• First Draft: Friday Ferret Blogging: Rerun Edition
• Neville Farm: We Three Kings, err, Sorrels on Neville Farm

In Memoriam

Didn't Make It

• Pharyngula: Panderichthys rhombolepis
• Olduvai George: Scimitar Cat,Homotherium serum, boarded 12/24

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• Far Cartouche: Robin's and Jonah Caught in midstream.
• Catymology: The Yule Cat Cometh
• Ballard Avenue: Santas on Parade boarded 12/24

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat's Carnival Page and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users: Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted "too rapidly" by the same host. I don't know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I'm sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh....

Posted by Steve on December 23, 2005