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.

Announcement: Due to Blog Carnival submission issues send your Carnival of the Cats entries the email address on the Carnival of Cats page.

ALERT! Riding the Rail: Modulator Staff will be cavorting in the San Francisco area Friday-Monday. I do not know what type of network access will be available Friday night and will catch up with boardings as soon as possible. Apologies in advance for delays!

Cats

• Howling Hill: Catnip Catastrophe
• Momma Grace Company: Sewing snoopervisors & thread lovers
• The Scratching Post: She’s Happy We’re Home
• KeesKennis: What?s in a name ?
• Catymology: Thursday Thirteen ~ cat art
• The Poor Mouth: That broom serves a purpose, human
• Sisu: The proof is in the puddy ~ Babe and Tiny
• Val’s Bien: Catnip Pusher
• Furry Paws: Sebastian’s new pillow
• Paulchens FoodBlog?!: [Weekend Cat Blogging] #111 – Welcome to the party!
• anniemiz: Friday Cat Blogging: CAT Scan
• Dragonheart’s Domain: Fashion Friday
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: A Group Shot
• Manx Mnews: Friday Cat Blogging – The Little Bed
• This, That & The Other Thing: Feline Friday Ribbon Romp Kosmo, Amber and Mouse
• Chasing Grace: This Is What Happens
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging – Laying around
• Stereophile: Huckleberry Helps and Bagheera Discovers Fresh Catnip
• Blog d’Elisson: Fuzzy Friday ~ Hakuna and Matata
• Dolphin’s Dock: Feline Friday ~ Look out Gryphon!
• Chey’s Place: Feature Friday
• Elms in the Yard: Stretching Out Her Ladyship stretches out one hot…
• Mind of Mog: Tongue ‘n Toes Thursday #13 ~ Meowza
• The Conservative Cat: Ferdinand T. Cat – Catblogging: The Interloper Outdoors
• composite drawlings: Friday Catblog ~ at the old watering hole and Tummy Tuesday #2
• Lincoln State Cat Club: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Benjamin looking regal
• Leslie’s Omnibus: The Divine Miss Marilyn
• Watermark Friday Cat Blogging
• Bad Kitty Cats: Thirteen Bukowski Facts
• Jelly Pizza: Greek Kitty Camping In….
• bloggo chicago: Friday Cat Blogging #55 – A Sense of Propriety
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Sa mmy and Frankie
• Markets and Cats: Feline Friday ~ Mighty Hunter – Sergei McKitten a quiet moment
• LadyGunn: More pictures of Wash and Zoe boarded 7/21
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging 111 – Chaos in Exile boarded 7/21
• Pet’s Garden Blog: Bad kitty cat chaos festival Second Edition! boarded 7/23

• Living the Scientific Life: Rare Mammal From the Age of Dinosaurs is Alive and Living Fossil Captured — in Zanzibar!
• Rurality: Recent Game Cam Action
• The Pet Haven: “Happy Community”
• What Do I Know?: Friday Bull Blogging
• A Blog Around The Clock: A Axolotl and Reptiles Above Berkely
• Rurality: Armadillo, Coyote, Raccoon, Black Racer and Frog Sounds boarded 7/21
• willow’s cat blog: Fun on Friday boarded 7/22
• China Cat’s blog: Not ready for the Full Monte yet…. boarded 7/22

Dogs

• composite drawlings: Dogblog ~ You are getting sleepy
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog: Walking ~ Sasha and Dexter
• Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic: Cedar boarded 7/21

Birds

• Living the Scientific Life: Bird Flight Speed: It’s Magic! Peregrine Falcon and Piping Plover and much more in Birds in the News #91
• The Paw Blog: Choosing the Right Bird
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Blue Heron
• X-TREME Tea Time: Friday Creature – Solo in Europe boarded 7/23

Invertebrates

• Living the Scientific Life: Samoan Butterflies Evolve Rapidly and Viceroy
• Earth, Wind & Water: The big mystery revealed
• Sisu: A world in a grain of sand ~ Snail, Silk Stockings and Spiders
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod: School’s approaching Sepioteuthis lessoniana
• The Daily Kos: Marine Life Series – Horseshoe Crab Conservation

In Memoriam

• Texas Oasis: Alex – In Memoriam
• Bark Bark Woof Woof: Reese
• Cat Daddy and Dr. Squeeky: Sebastian (“Bassy,” “Fat Bastard,” “Baz”)

Didn’t Make It

• A Blog Around The Clock: A Mastodent

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• Mad Kane’s Humor Blog: May I Please Have Your Paw In Marriage?
• the skwib: Forty-seven Signs of the Apocalypse (#44)

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. Also, there are more doggies at Weekend Dog Blogging hosted this weekend by Sweetnicks.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 173rd edition, 7/15, is up at 100 Word Stories Podcast . The 174th edition will be hosted on 7/22 by This Blog Is Full of Crap. There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging #111 hosted on 7/21-7/22 by Paulchen’s FoodBlog?!. 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 53rd edition is up and hosted by 10,000 Birds. The 54th edition will be hosted on 7/26 by The Egret’s Nest.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 22nd edition is up and hosted by Burning Silo. The 23rd edition will be hosted at the end of July by Words & Pictures .

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users:

Over the past month or so Haloscan started (the end of July) handling of trackbacks has improved though it is still pretty broken for carnival type posts. Now, instead of rejecting every attempt to ping it accepts single pings for a while and then will start rejecting them. I will keep trying to track back to Haloscan boarders but can make no guarantees for any particular week.

Note for Typepad Users:

Typepad continues to behave similar to Haloscan for trackbacks. I been able to get trackbacks to most, if not all, Typepad based boarders. I have to do it one at a time and wait a while in between pings but Typepad does not go into semi-permanent rejection mode like Haloscan.