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….?

Do link to the Ark every week!

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

Alert: As we are riding the rails updates will be intermittant and frequently delayed for long periods…Especially after 6:00 PM GMT Friday.

Cats

• The Scratching Post: Thermal Control
• Catymology: A letter from Mowgli
• houseofchaos: Genteel disposition ?
• A Geezer’s Corner: Cat Blog (day before) Friday
• The Poor Mouth: Robyn, please don’t look at my leg like that
• Blog d’Elisson: Nestling
• The Conservative Cat: Ferdinand T. Cat – Catblogging: Finger-Licking Good
• Sisu: Baby Cakes and Baby contemplates…
• Val’s Bien: What Ever It Takes
• Melange: “I’m Ready For My Close-up” and Nicky: A Timid Tummy
• Furry Paws: Happy Belated Easter
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging: Dryer fun
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: What Football?
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday: Sunbathing
• xenogere /strange behavior/: What Is It?
• Elms in the Yard: Cats in Light and Dark
• Lisa Violet’s Diary: Tummy Tuesday #38: a Wally Belly
• The Peach Pit: I think he wanted to play
• composite drawlings: Friday Catblog: Shy Sister, plus one
• Scribblings: Feline Friday: Shy Indigo
• enrevanche: Cats can make themselves comfortable anywhere , part XVII
• Stereophile: Detente and Naked Aggression
• Dragonheart’s Domain: Frootbat Friday
• Michael and Jaspenelle: Feline Friday: Mascot – Windigo is doing well
• Leslie’s Omnibus: Traveling Companions: The Divine Miss Marilyn says she’s not coming out
• anniemiz: Friday Cat Blogging: Dolly and Tom
• Athenamama: JPurr,Clean, Refreshing Thalia
• If At First You Don’t Succeed…: Further on the subject of dinner
• Lab Kat: Friday Cat Blogging: Gaming Edition- Pixel and Pica
• Lincoln State Cat Club: Friday Cat Blogging
• The Wide Awake Cafe: The Tale of the Tail
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Phil: Frankie and Sammy
• Prophet or Madman: Friday Pet Blogging – Lets Watch TV! Otis boarded 4/14
• Chey’s Place: Puffalump Scandal boarded 4/14
• willow’s cat blog: Wacky New Toy boarded 4/14
• China Cat’s blog: Back in the sunshine again… boarded 4/14
• Windypundit: Cat or Tribble? boarded 4/14
• Jelly Pizza:
  Friday Cat Spelunking… boarded 4/14
• Allan Thinks: Scorpion Fish boarded 4/14
• The Cutting Edge: Friday, the Kitten, Cat Blogging boarded 4/14
• Karen Shanley: The Piano Concerto boarded 4/14
• Pet’s Garden Blog: Toy Bears boarded 4/14
• Nina’s Books 4 Israel Project: Tobias says… boarded 4/15
• Tiny Bubbles: The Kids boarded 4/15
• Bad Kitty Cats: Ugly Chairs? The Bad Kitty Cats Like Them, The Aftermath and When Maggie The Cat Pops boarded 4/15
• Elijah’s Rescue: Shelter Cat Spotlight: Meet Brit

• Smokey Mountain Breakdown: The Cute, The Bad and The Greedy ~ BABY GOATS!
• Chris Dolley: The Spring (Lamb) Olympics
• The Daily Kos: Marine Life Series: Fish Scales boarded 4/14

Invertebrates

• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod: Madonna and childOctopus berrima

Dogs

• Living the Scientific Life: Understanding Genetics of Dog Size Variations Can Aid Cancer Research
• Val’s Bien: Casey, A-Frame Action
• composite drawlings: Dogblog: Clyde’s in his bed and all’s right with the world
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog: Another Week – Sasha and Dexter
• Athenamama: JPurr,Clean, Refreshing Thalia

Birds

• KeesKennis: See the compassion
• A DC Birding Blog: Loose Feathers #94 – Red-necked Grebe Pair
• KeesKennis: Must get fit boarded 4/14

In Memoriam

• Texas Oasis: Catblogging – Duncan, in memoriam
• First Draft: Thanks, Joe

Didn’t Make It

• x

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• Creatures of the Earth: How I became you
• Mad Kane’s Humor Blog: A Doggone Limerick

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 158th edition , 4/8, is up at Bad Kitty Cats. The 160th edition will be hosted on 4/15 by Books For Israel . There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging #97 hosted on 4/14-15 by A Byootaful Life . 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 46th edition is up and hosted by lovely dark and deep. The 47th edition will be hosted on 4/19 by Bell Tower Birding.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 19th edition is up and hosted by Burning Silo. The 20th edition will be hosted at the end of April by, well, it could be you.

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.