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.

Cats

• Solidly Average: My Dearest Francesca and Harley, …
• Blog d’Elisson: Ol’ Blue Eyes
• Chris Dolley: Just when we thought it was safe………Five Go-old Kittens
• Sisu: Tiny and Baby, enjoying a lovely early fall weather day…
• Wicked Games: Daiquiri Filled Workdays
• Catymology: Catymology’s own private label
• The Poor Mouth: Bebe in all her glory
• Beezer Song: Lap Time
• Creatures of the Earth: Tickle me cato
• Melange: Here We Go A-Wandering and A Tired Tubby Tummy
• stillpoint: tickles
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Ringo Does DeNiro
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging
• Watermark: Utilitarian Kitties & MOO MiniCards
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday: Occupied
• Manx Mnews: Happiness: My smiling boy; Ping
• T.Bird On A Wire: Harley and Dolly
• houseofchaos: The Mistress and Bouncing Psycho have a new toy…
• Texas Oasis: Friday Cats – Office Space
• Val’s Bien: Eli on the Porch
• Allan Thinks: Shall I chase the fake mouse?
• Elms in the Yard: This is Fluffy
• Catcall: Friday Catblogging – How I start my morning with the cats
• Athenamama: Ebby, The Official Athenamama Cat of Halloween and Ebby’s Story
• Stereophilia: Stereophile: Not As Easy As It Looks and Stereophile: She’s So Serious
• Gigolokitty!: Ask The Gigolokitty! #1
• Lisa Violet’s Diary: It’s Tummy Tuesday #11: Mystie Maggie
• The Scratching Post: K T is Not Spoiled, She’s Just Our Maximum Leader
• Sugarfused: Love Me Tender: Elvis needs a hug
• Take Joy!: Laundry Day
• House of the (Mostly) Black Cats: Me? Cat of the Day?
• The Wide Awake Cafe: Asta Being Asta
• The Conservative Cat: Ferdinand T. Cat – Catblogging: Finders Keepers
• composite drawlings: Friday Catblog: Guardians at the gate
• Sherry Chandler: Cats with Love Songs
• Southern Highlands Cam: Friday CatBlogging
• Turtleheart Cove: Feline Friday: The New Quilt
• Wildrun: Ditz found the Lands End box
• The Yellow Doggerel Democrat: Friday Comfy Kitty Chair Blogging
• IMAO: Friday Catblogging: Nardo, Prisoner of Pants
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Paz, Frankie, Sammy and Phil
• bobbie’s bunch o cats: Sara’s Tummy Tuesday
• Beau & Angelica’s Fur Days: For the hard working humans
• Leslie’s Omnibus: Traveling Companions: The Divine Miss Marilyn is going to hate it…
• Merlin’s Meows: Hidey Spot
• Jelly Pizza: What Can I Say…
• andrethegiant: Friday Cat Blogging
• Blogging Cat: Rocky & Lucky’s Bed
• (sometimes)photoblog: Feline Friday: Pickle was scanning for anole lizards…
• Middle Fork: Maple Lounging boarded 10/7
• enrevanche: Good to be home again boarded 10/7
• Kaze the Cat: Frootbat Friday!!! boarded 10/7
• A Blog for Emma: 5 Things That Make You Go Awwwwww…
• this ain’t livin’: Friday Cat Blogging: Lokiand my chaeir battle…; boarded 10/7

Invertebrates

• Niches: Brunch
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod: I’ve been there…Newly hatched bobtail squid
• (sometimes)photoblog: Butterfly Time: Gulf Fritillary
• Urban Dragon Hunters: Dos Dragonlets
• Henry’s Webiocosm Blog: Insect Friday: Walkingstick
• Science Notes: Friday Cephalopod Blogging: Transparent Octopus
• Tortoise Trail: Western Pygmy Blue Butterfly (Brephidium exilis) boarded 10/7

Birds

• Trevor’s Birding: Time for a shower
• 10,000 Birds: Happy Hawk Day 2006
• Retrospectacle: Friday Grey Matters: Strange Disease Targeting Rare Captive Parrot
• Birdchick Blog: Ack–Must Get Going!: White-throated Sparrow
• Bird Ecology Study Group: The fig tree at Bukit Timah boarded 10/7
• Birder Blog: They’re Off; boarded 10/7

Dogs

• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog – Scents and Sentience: Sasha and Dexter
• Val’s Bien: Trixie
• The Naked Truth: Friday Puppy Photo Blogging: Under the Table
• Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic: Kyan eyes a leather chew toy…
• LadyGunn: It’s A Boy! named Rummy
• Athenamama: Angel’s Long Lost Brother
• Something So Clever: Stewie and his stuffie
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature: one of my next-door neighbors yorkies
• thumb drives & oven clocks: Kacey’s book club

Other Vertebrates

• T.Bird On A Wire: Harley and Dolly
• Locusts & Honey: Weekend Rabbit Blogging
• Bioluminescence: Pictures from the Patch
• Ogre’s Politics & Views: Turtles in Action and Poltergeist Lemur
• Birdchick Blog: A Sad Display: Cinnamon
• Biomes Blog: Red Lionfish boarded 10/7

In Memoriam

• Blog d’Elisson: Requies-Cat In Pace: Pishalou, 1987-2006
• houseofchaos: Rest In Peace: Critter: 12 Feb 1995 -5 Oct 2006

Didn’t Make It

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Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

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Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map. (73 shouts as of 10/5)

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 Dispensing Happiness.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 132nd edition, 10/1 is up at Pets Garaden Blog. The 133rd edition will be hosted by Curiouser and Curiouser on 10/8. There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging hosted on 10/7 by The Hidden Paw 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 33rd edition is up and hosted by Don’t Mess With Taxes. The 34th edition will be hosted on 10/12 by Tortoise Trail.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 13th edition is up at Deep Sea News. The 14th edition will be hosted at the end of October by The Neurophilosopher’s Blog.

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….