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….?

As this is the Centennial edition we decided to celebrate by making a few changes:

1. You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive Page (construction underway).
2. Links to related carnivals and other miscellania are now at the bottom following the boarders.

Visit each border and come back regularly Friday-Sunday to discover new boarders.

Cats

• Solidly Average: Kitties: Harley, Caesar and Francesca
• The MisAdventures of Rico Loco: Socialization Issues
• Chris Dolley: Kittens and Lambscapes: Kai the Boxer and Xena of the Lambs
• Farmgirl Fare: Big Cats In Trouble–Maybe You Can Help
• The Scratching Post: A Portrait in Contemplation
• Catymology: Buttering up to things
• Sisu: Mister Gato, Baby Cakes and Baby Paws
• Outside In: WTF Friday: sophie and McCloud have moved…
• Blog d’Elisson: Warm and Fuzzy
• Furry Paws: Sebastian’s New Seat
• Anchored by Grace: It’s All in The Eyes
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Sammy, Frankie, Phil and Paz
• Melange: The Blame Game
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: It’s Hot
• Mind of Mog: And So It Read
• Jelly Pizza: Jelly Pizza: Survivor ~ Cat Abode…
• Manx Mnews: Denim Fever
• Gigolokitty!: Gigolo Kitty! The Musical! #5
• Texas Oasis: Friday Cat: Staying Warm
• enrevanche: Cat on a pedestal
• Val’s Bien: Eli and Bows, Computer Hogs and The Joys of Styrofoam Packing
• Take Joy!: High Wire Act: serena
• The Peach Pit: faucet dringing kitty
• Stereophilia: On the Comfy Chair and What the…
• Middle Fork: Jaxon Pays a Visit
• Far Cartouche: Lady and Houdini both insist they weren’t really playing
• Catcall: Friday Catblogging: Nardo got in a fight…
• Athenamama: Queen Mother Salem
• T.Bird On A Wire: Squeaker and Harley hanging out in the kitchen
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday: How to photograph a cat… or not
• composite drawlings: Friday Catblog: The crown rests heavy
• Scamperdude.com: Glamour Puss Pippa and Unnamed Kitten Game
• Leslie’s Omnibus: Traveling Companions: The Divine Miss Marilyn says…
• bloggo chicago: Friday Cat Blogging #29: Not-So-Tough Guy
• The Wide Awake Cafe: Kyle and the Candlesticks
• Brilliant at Breakfast: Friday Cat Blogging
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging – LEAPING KITTY!
• Shrimp and Grits: Friday cat: Wasaaaaaaaaaaaaap?
• Sherry Chandler: Cat eyes and Transcendalist Shanties
• Good Nonsense: Friday Cat Blogging!!
• Pen Elayne: Friday Cat Blogging: Datsa and Amy
• Watermark: Cats vs. Dogs
• chefsarahjane: Weekend Cat Blogging 62
• Dependable Renegade: Friday other peoples Catblogging: Beacoup de Miles
• The Dees Diversion: Friday cat blogging – bedtime story
• Kat’s Cat of the Day: Opie
• Ocellated: The Kangaroo Cat: The Bruce
• Leigh Witchel: Friday Cat hair Blogging
• Aunty Holly: Objet d’Shred
• Creatures of the Earth: Experience the magic of the lap dance
• The Hidden Paw: Boots and Tess play hide and seek
• Little Cat Feet: Tiger boarded 8/19
• Lawyers, Guns and Money: Friday Cat Blogging: Nelson and Starbuck boarded 8/19
• (sometimes)photoblog: Feline Friday: Pickle boarded 8/19
• No Deep Thoughts: Bed in a Bag boarded 8/19
• Pet’s Garden: Photo Friday – Friends: MissSnot and… boarded 8/19
• Elms in the Yard: Kitties Beat the Heat boarded 8/19
• Eschaton: Friday Cat Blogging boarded 8/19
• Anne’s Food: Weekend Cat Blogging #62: my little tiger boarded 8/19
• i am a butterfly…: The Joxer exrcise device; boarded 8/19
• Heretic Spire, A Damn Lie: Me and the cat are hanging at home,… boarded 8/19
• Heather’s Space: Heather is hosting Weekend Cat Blogging #62
• Moxie: Friday Cat Blogging boarded 8/20
• Meditation Matters: Friday cat blogging! Henry on the futon; boarded 8/20
• LadyGunn: Old Fluffy Kitties boarded 8/20
• The Neutral Zone Trap: Friday Cat Blogging: Intensive Cat Unit and Single in the City boarded 8/20
• No Capital: Festive Felines boarded 8/20
• Not A Fish: Shoosha for Prime Minister! boarded 8/20
• Red Peonies: Carnival of the Cats #126

• Have Passport, Will Travel: Caravan Greyhound
• Solidly Average: Old Hill: Turkeys, Jaxsun and Butterflies
• The Scratching Post: World of Good Blogburst, Vetcharity Style
• Sisu: Chow Bella and the flying bat girl
• Athenamama: Jackie and Angel CellPhone Pictures
• Watermark: Cats vs. Dogs
• Dog Blog: Dogs 268-273
• Ironicus Maximus: Friday Hound Blogging: Betta is laid back and easygoing…
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog – Living with Sasha and Dexter.
• Julie Zickefoose: Post-Chet Baker’s Home boarded 8/19
• Echidne Of The Snakes: Saturday Spotted Dog Blogging: Dottie and Beau boarded 8/19
• Karbon Kounty Moos: Finally Friday: Sugar boarded 8/20
• Coyote Mercury: Weekend Hound Blogging: Workin’ the Floor boarded 8/20
• Los Brushes: Lending a Hound a Hand: Phoebe boarded 8/20

• Chris Dolley: Kittens and Lambscapes: Kai, Xena, Lambs and Saffron
• Sisu: Camels
• T.Bird On A Wire: New Addition and Oreo
• Thomasburg Walks: Frog in the Grass
• Val’s Bien: Life in the Garden
• Farmgirl Fare: Little Stinker
• The Voltage Gate: The Cohabitation of the Pandas
• Sunbeams From Cucumbers: Friday Animal Blogging: Meerkat
• Basic Juice: Mystery Moose boarded 8/19

• Solidly Average: Old Hill: Turkeys, Jaxsun and Butterflies
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod: Explicit
• bootstrap analysis: Good Bugs
• Farmgirl Fare: A Most Extraordinary Hug
• The Firefly Forest: Milweed Longhorn Beetle (Tetraopes sp.)
• Deep-Sea News: Sea Spiders
• Burning Silo: the dog days of summer: Dogday Harvestfly (Tibicen canicularis) cicada Oh, My!
• A DC Birding Blog: Kestrels and Butterflies boarded 8/19
• Earth, Wind & Water: Painted Lady Butterfly boarded 8/19
• Mokka mit Schlag: Red Admiral boarded 8/20
• Niches: Scarlett O’Hara’s Wildest Dream: Thread-Waisted Wasp, Eremnophila aureonotata boarded 8/20

• Burning Silo: I and the Bird #30
• Solidly Average: Old Hill: Turkeys, Jaxsun and Butterflies
• A DC Birding Blog: Urban Birdwatching
• Rurality: Murphy’s Law of Chickens
• Facing South: Blue Heron
• Dependable Renegade: Some morning relief
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature: Pileated Woodpecker
• Natural Visions: Friday Quiz #8 boarded 8/19
• A DC Birding Blog: Kestrels and Butterflies boarded 8/19
• Dharma Bums: for the birds; we have a plethora of goldfinches… boarded 8/19
• The Scratching Post: Hawaiian Red Crested Cardinal boarded 8/20
• Mike’s Birding & Digiscoping Blog: Early one morning at Horicon NWR… boarded 8/20
• The Hawk’s Owl Nest: White-tailed Ptarmigan boarded 8/20

• Snail’s Tales: Animalcules Volume 1, Issue 11

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map. (73 shouts as of 08/17)

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 125th edition, 8/13 is up at Blog d’Ellison. The 126th edition will be hosted by Red Peonies on 8/20. 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. 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 30th edition is up and hosted by Burning Sile The 31st edition will be hosted on 8/31 by migrateblog.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 11th edition is up at Words & Pictures. The 12th edition will be hosted August 31st by Sunbeams From Cucumbers.

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival 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….