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….?

You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page(construction underway).

Note: Leading off this weeks Ark are the boarders that didn’t make last week’s edition due to the staff’s vacation. They are marked with an *.

Cats

• The Wide Awake Cafe: Andy in His Sanctuary*
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Phil, Paz, Frankie and Sam*
• Where the Dolphins Play: Feline Fridays: Rocker Edition*
• Watermark: Still Feeling Evil?*
• The Conservative Cat: Ferdinand T. Cat – Catblogging: An Undeniable Truth*
• Leslie’s Omnibus: Traveling Companions: I miss Tiger Boots…*
• Jelly Pizza: Jelly Pizza: Oh Frabjous Day!*
• The Poor Mouth: Mimi*
• TacJammer: Rural Sprawl*
• Blog d’Elisson: The Kitties’ Hour*
• Mensa Barbie: Foreign Feline Correspondent…
• Chris Dolley: Kitten Video Wednesday: Xena and Kai
• A Blog Around The Clock: Marbles and Biscuit
• Sisu: Purrky and Babe, Baby and Babe applying the think system…
• Melange: A Sunny Tummy and Chloe Wants To Play
• Prophet or Madman: Friday Pet Blogging: Postal Inspectors, Meeeeeeew and I’m Hiding
• No Deep Thoughts: Friday Cat Blogging: RicoLoco at 17 weeks
• Jelly Pizza: If I Ever Needed The Ark…
• Anchored by Grace: Cats of the Past, Tyler Edition
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Feral Kittens
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Paz, Frankie and Sammy, and Phil
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday: Lyra is lounging
• The Poor Mouth: Bebe was a feral…
• Manx Mnews: Abby is a bit unhappy
• Texas Oasis: Friday Cat: Most Favored Seat
• House of the (Mostly) Black Cats: Friday Cat Blogging
• Take Joy!: Sam Guards His Chickens
• Aunty Holly: Tail Spin
• T.Bird On A Wire: Jack (Harley) in the Box – Video
• Funny Pets: Potty Cats
• Val’s Bien: Budda Eli
• Catcall: Friday Catblogging: Piper Likes Mustard
• enrevanche: On the ledge
• Lisa Violet’s Diary: Potter’s New Do
• The Scratching Post: K T and her Boyfriend
• IMAO: Friday Catblogging: Piper the Curious
• Elms in the Yard: Waiting and Watching
• Josh’s Weblog: Feline Friday: Snowball
• A Geezer’s Corner: cat blog friday
• Life @ GracefulSymmetry: Feline Friday
• Meankitty Says….: Cats and Baby Toys
• Stereophilia: Goshdarnit! and That Boy’s Not Right!
• Creatures of the Earth: Brushing the folds of pink taffeta away
• Blog d’Elisson: Into Leather
• Watermark: Working Cats and Friday Cat Blogging
• composite drawlings: Friday Catblog: In & Out
• Merlin’s Meows: Hi There.
• Leslie’s Omnibus: Traveling Companions: Zombie Cat Blogging
• Mind of Mog: Cute Old Kitty Pic
• bloggo chicago: Friday Cat Blogging #30: Meet Cozmo
• The Conservative Cat: Ferdinand T. Cat – Catblogging: The Mighty Hunter at Rest
• Eschaton: Friday Cat Blogging
• Sherry Chandler: Philosophers: Crouched Like A Cat
• Pen Elayne: Friday Cat Blogging: Datsa
• A Blog for Emma: Funny Face Friday
• Ocellated: The Sphinx
• The Dees Diversion: Friday cat blogging – U.S. Open Edition
• Beau & Angelica’s Fur Days: Sweaty Night
• Middle Fork: Sabaki Perched Above the Baseboard Heater
• Pharyngula: Midnight is missing
• Catymology: Tummy Tuesday: spa time boarded 9/2
• (sometimes)photoblog: Feline Friday: Another one of Pickles many faces… boarded 9/2
• Cynical-C Blog: Friday Night Cat Blogging boarded 9/2
• A Pretty How Town: The Cat Came Back
• Little Cat Feet: Bleep, bleep, bleep! boarded 9/2
• houseofchaos: quotes…glorious quotes… boarded 9/3
• Watermark: Carnival of the Cats #128: Labor Day Edition

Dogs

• Basic Juice: good boy, Reggie*
• Farmgirl Fare: Robin Loves Life On The Farm *
• Coyote Mercury: Weekend Hound Blogging: Three Dog pack*
• Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic: Kyan in a Barrel*
• A Blog Around The Clock: Millenium
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog – Dogs With Dignity; Sasha and Dexter
• A Blog for Emma: Funny Face Friday
• Ironicus Maximus: Friday Hound Blogging: Tillie takes baby steps…; boarded 9/2
• Pop Culture Gadabout: Labor Day Weekend Pet Pic: Kyan Pup head shot boarded 9/3

Invertebrates

• Sunbeams From Cucumbers: Circus of the Spineless #12
• Thoughts from Kansas: Friday Find: What’s under your nose? Sphinx Moth Caterpillar
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod: Wonderpus
• Rurality: Eastern Amberwing
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature: Found these little guys on my parsley…

Birds

• Henry’s Webiocosm Blog: Friday Bird Bloggins: Owls*
• Birds Etcetera (AKA Bird Stuff): Exuberant Catbird
• migrateblog: I and the Bird #31
• A Blog Around The Clock: Pretty Bird: American Goldfinch
• A DC Birding Blog: Birds of the Mid-Atlantic #21: Young Birds
• Walking Prescott: Critter Sightings 1 (scroll down)
• Middle Fork: Winged Forest Friend Flies by to Say Hi boarded 9/2
• 10,000 Birds: Sandy Hook Sightings boarded 9/2

Other Vertebrates

• ElectEcon: How Much Is a Baby Squirrel Worth?*
• Watermark: Friday Squirrel*
• Farmgirl Fare: Big Chip is a Big Pet*
• Sarangeti:
  Wannabe Lance
• Walking Prescott: Critter Sightings 1
• Cybervassals: Nope. Thanks. We’ll stay right here in the shade thank you.
• T.Bird On A Wire: Am I nuts? (new cavy pets), Da Baby Buns are…. and Hello Roscoe Rabbit!
• Duck Pond: Blue tongued lizard (scroll down)
• Take Joy!: William After Breakfast
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging – Featuring Ted!
• 10,000 Birds: Sandy Hook Sightings boarded 9/2
• The Scratching Post: Rodents Don’t Like Paparazzi boarded 9/3

In Memoriam

• Coyote Mercury: Weekend Cat Blogging: Goodbye, Little Man*
• Athenamama: Remembering Mama

Didn’t Make It

• A Blog Around The Clock: The Last Passenger Pigeon: Martha

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• x

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 127th edition, 8/27 is up at Catymology. The 128th edition will be hosted by Watermark on 9/3. 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 31st edition is up and hosted by migrateblog.The 32st edition will be hosted on 9/14 bySand Creek Almanac.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 12th edition is up at Sunbeams From Cucumbers . The 13th edition will be hosted September 30 by Deep Sea News.

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….