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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You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page.

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Cats

• Blog d’Elisson: Feeding Time ~ Hakuna enjoys a quick bite
• Howling Hill: Goings On ~ Anxious pets waiting for scraps
• Dogblog ~ Clyde is invaded by demonspawn Maus
• House of Chaos: Feather fever
• Sisu: Baby Cakes
• The Poor Mouth: It’s hard to tell where Robyn ends and Bebe starts
• Val’s Bien: Surviving the Heat
• Texas Oasis: Catblogging – Couching Cats
• The Scratching Post: More Fun Than Catnip in a Bag!
• Prophet or Madman: Friday Pet Blogging ~ AfterImage – Milo and Otis
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Working Hard
• Manx Mnews: Friday Cat Blogging – Guess Who?
• What A Good Cat: Traditional Friday Cat Blogging with Miss Caitie
• No Deep Thoughts: Friday Cat Blogging – Rafe is doing so much better!
• Chat Katze: It’s Friday! It’s the Weekend!
• enrevanche: Lapcattery
• Take Joy!: Close Encounters
• D³: Friday Pet Blogging: ‘Laxin’
• Elms in the Yard: Two Pictures, Three Cats
• composite drawlings: Friday Catblog: ~ Strange intruders and Tuesday Tummy #6
• Chey’s Place: Feature Friday Nap
• Chasing Grace: Wordless Wednesday Kitty
• Lab Kat: Friday Cat Blogging: Zen Edition- Coby
• Dolphin’s Dock: Feline Friday ~ The three “whiskateers.”
• Middle Fork: Sabaki in the hallway
• . . .You Are A Tree: How much for that Xena in the window
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Reine and Phil
• Katnippia: Double Tuxie Friday!
• Joseph Palmer: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Miko
• Leslie’s Omnibus: Traveling Companions ~ The Divine Miss Marilyn
• Watermark Too Much Kitten Cuteness
• Happening Here: Friday cat blogging
• Kitty Limericks: Pumpkin
• Historianess: Friday Cat Blogging with Pepper the Crazy the Cat
Meditation Matters: Friday Cat Blogging! Harriett on topof the hall tree
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging 115 – Now is the summer of our discontent
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging – Zorro
• Forty Paws: Questions to Ponder ~ Obi
• Pen Elayne: Friday Cat Blogging: Amy, please get off my CDs; boarded 8/18
• The Little Professor: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Special Guest Cat Edition boarded 8/18
• maggie’s meanderings and shameless plugs: Aall tucked in… boarded 8/18
• Little Cat Zee: Gotcha! boarded 8/18
• China Cat’s blog: Full Monte Friday boarded 8/18
• willow’s cat blog: Full Monty Friday… boarded 8/18
• Bad Kitty Cats: TStrange Smooze Thinking Megan Cat Blog boarded 8/18
• Imeowza: Here am I, sleeping on my blog…; boarded 8/19
• Mind of Mog: Meowza’s a good kittycat, … boarded 8/19
• Strange Ranger: Carnival of the Cats #178

Invertebrates

• Living the Scientific Life: Female Gray Hairstreak, Strymon melinus
• Sisu: White Cabbage Butterfly, Monarch Butterfly and Monarch Butterfly & Bumble Bee
• Smokey Mountain Breakdown: Friday Ark ~ Black Widow
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod: Wicked cool ~ Vampyroteuthis infernalis and Wunderpus photogenicus
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: A crab
  for this week!
• Medlar Comforts: Those spectacular hairy things
• Shrimp and Grits: Friday Cat Food ~ The King approaches! No, wait…
• Ontogeny: Friday Ant Zen ~ Giant Gliding Ant, Cephalotes atratus
• I Got Two Shoes: Bogues
• Thomasburg Walks: Friday Spider ~ Yellow Goldenrod Crab Spider
• Niches: Fu with Pisaurids boarded 8/18
• Middle Fork: Orange Dragonfly 3 boarded 8/18
• Dope and the Slope: It’s gorgeous out there! boarded 8/18

Birds

• Living the Scientific Life: Male Common Nighthawk, Chordeiles minor and much more in Birds in the News #95
• Earth, Wind & Water: Gotcha! Hummingbird
• Passion-Photo: Un bien joli visiteur…..
• Mike’s Birding & Digiscoping Blog: Fall Warblers ~ Nashville Warbler
• Trevor’s Birding: Singing Honeyeater & Grey Currawong

Other Vertebrates

• Walking Prescott: The Iron Zoo
• The Daily Kos: Marine Life Series – Deep-Sea Anglerfish
• Take Joy!: Close Encounters
• Catymology: Black squirrel cult invades Minneapolis
• The Daily Kos: Marine Life Series – The Blue Whale

Dogs

• Howling Hill: Goings On ~ Anxious pets waiting for scraps
• composite drawlings: Dogblog ~ Clyde is invaded by demonspawn Maus
• the skwib: The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Dog Edition #3)
• D³: Friday Pet Blogging: ‘Laxin’
• Ironicus Maximus: Friday Hound Blogging: Fury Lin AKA Sadie is very affectionate
• Scratchings & Sniffings: The Dog Days of Summer
• Music and Cats: Farm Dog Friday ~ Duke boarded 8/18
• Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic: Ziggy Stardust boarded 8/19

In Memoriam

• Jelly Pizza: Sun In Leo… Bye, sweet kitty. Taboo, you stole our hearts 1989-2007

Didn’t Make It

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Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• x

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 177th edition, 8/12, is up at Momma Grace & Company . The 178th edition will be hosted on 8/19 by Stranger Ranger. There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging #115 hosted on 8/18-8/19 by Catsynth. 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 55th edition is up and hosted by Birdfreak Birdig Blog. The 56th edition will be hosted on 8/23 by Big Spring Birds.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 23rd edition is up and hosted by Words & Pictures. The 24th edition will be hosted at the end of August at the Naturalist Notebook.

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.