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.

Cats

• JB’s Small World: I Have a Valentine!
• Sisu: Tiny keeps her eye on the ball… and Babe and Tiny
• House of Chaos: Forlorn at the door
• The Poor Mouth: Robyn (photo hunt heavy)
• Blog d’Elisson: Thursday Catblogging ~Hakuna parked under her favorite chair; and Beware…
• Val’s Bien: Do Not Disturb
• Books at Eclectics: Not now, I’m reading!
• It’s Morning Somewhere: FCB ~ Rocky Girl steps in front
• Texas Oasis: Purrsday Night ~ laptop: Jax
• TacJammer: If it’s Not One Thing, It’s Another ~ Mycah
• Perfectly Parker: Formerly Feral Friday
• Manx Mnews: A Cat In A Basket ~ Abby
• Elms in the Yard: How to Make a Lady Happy
• The Scratching Post: The Morning Routine
• Dragonheart’s Domain: Fine Frootbats on Friday & An Award
• Lab Kat: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Shelf Edition: Pixel
• House of the (Mostly) Black Cats: Finally Friday
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging ~ No Blue Eyes For You
• Chey’s Place: Feature Friday
• composite drawlings: Friday catblog ~ Please identify…/li>
• Mind of Mog: The Observer
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday ~ Fur therapy for a traveller
• Pulp Friction: Baby Jake is coming home today
• anniemiz: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Stripes, Guest Cat
• Life from a Cat’s Perspective: Time-Out Thursday and Catch up Day and Playtime
• Take Joy!: Winter Nap ~ Mr. Earl Schmoodge
• Pet Monologues: Mapping of the cat brain.
• Red Peonies: Audrey and Josephine love Macs
• The Big Piney Woods Cats: Oh, No!!! says Mystrie Rose
• No Deep Thoughts: Friday Cat Blogging ~Movie Time: Kate, Rico,Sawyer,Rafe, Charley and Rhett
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Frankie and Sammy
• If At First You Don’t Succeed: Puppy Cat
• Fiat Lux: Friday Cat Blogging: Gimi
• meeyauw: LOL Cat Bible: Lectionary Readings …
• Gypsy & Tasha – Kaz’s Cats: Tasha – Formerly Feral Friday & Tribute to Ginger
• Artsy Catsy: Finally Friday
• Mercury Rising: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Alexander the Great boarded 2/9
• Bonnie Underfoot and Victor Tabbycat: Don’t Let Me Out of the Bag! boarded 2/9
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging ~ Embracing Modernism boarded 2/9
• Watermark: Friday Cat Blogging boarded 2/9
• What Did You Eat?: WCB ~ Valentine’s Day? boarded 2/9
• Mind of Mog: Caturday boarded 2/9

Birds

• Biological Ramblings: I and the Bird #68
• Living the Scientific Life: New Bird Discovered… and Male Wood Duck, Aix sponsa an more in Birds in the News #117
• JB’s Big World: Too Many Chickens and Ducks
• Thoughts from the Middle of Nowhere: Pheasants
• Birdchick Blog: Eagles Along The River
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Balance
• Ecobirder: Great Horned Owl, Wild Turkeys and Ring-necked Pheasant
• Bird Ecology Study Group: The Brown Boobook boarded 2/9

Invertebrates

• Andrea’s Buzzing About: Circus of the Spineless #29
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature ~ Nautilus
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod ~ Big Beast
• Pet Monologues: Dragon fly. Dew.
• Henry’s Webiocosm Blog: Arhtropod Friday ~ Triops, Triops longicaudatus
• Snail’s Tales: Slugs in February
• Ontogeny: Friday Spider Zen ~ Giant Silk Spider, Nephila sp.
• Myrmecos Blog: Friday Beetle Blogging ~ Dineutes Whirligig, Dineutes sublineatus
• The Daily Kos: Marine Life Series – Cassiopeia
• Niches: Speckled Sharpshooter, Paraulacizes irrorata boarded 2/9

Dogs

• JB’s Big World: Fats Domino
• What Works For Us: How To Make Dinner With A Toddler And A Dog
• Pamibe: Canine Carnival #15
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog ~ The Breed Is The thing: Sasha and Dexter
• composite drawlings: Dogblog ~ Clyde and the Jeopardy! Think Music
• Athenamama: Waking up with Jackie and Angel
• Pet Monologues: Single Black Female…
• Facing South: Friday Dogblogging
• Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic: Ziggy Stardust (a.k.a. Dusty) boarded 2/9

Other Vertebrates

• Living the Scientific Life: Sumatran Tiger, Panthera tigris sumatrae
• What Do I Know: Friday Dark Horse Blogging
• Pet Monologues: Snake Scales and Happy Valentine’s Day
• Rat In A Box: This needs a LOLRat caption
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Not a gooey duck cross, after all
• Rock Paper Lizard: Raccon Love
• Bob Harris: Friday Pudublogging: Not all pudus are camera shy
• Ecobirder: A Really Cute Orangutan Baby boarded 2/9
• What Did You Eat?: WCB ~ Valentine’s Day? boarded 2/9
• Living the Scientific Life: Flesh-eating Amphibians ~ Purple Caecilian, Gymnopis multiplicata

In Memoriam

• yourish.com: Tigger: March 15, 1997-February 9, 2008
• Mind of Mog: Tig Is Gone
• Blog d’Elisson: Vale, Tigger

Didn’t Make It

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Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• Pet Monologues: Tuesday Chicken…
• Green Gabbro: Friday Rock Blogging ~ Gabbro
• the skwib: When in Rome

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to:

• Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday
  • the 203rd edition, 2/3, is up at When Cats Attack!
  • The 204th edition, 2/10, will be hosted at Pet’s Garden Blog

• Weekend Cat Blogging which goes up every weekend
• The 139th edition, 2/2-2/3, is up at A Byootaful Life
• The 140th edition, 2/9-10, will be hosted by PaulChens Food Blog
• Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos which goes up every weekend
• The 30th edition, 2/3, is up at Bad Kitty Festival Home
• The 31st edition, 2/10, will be hosted by The Cat Blogosphere
• Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map

Birders: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks.

• The 68th edition, 2/7, is up at Biological Ramblings
• The 69th edition, 2/21, will be hosted by GrrlScientist

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles.

• The 29th edition, january, is up at Andrea’s Buzzing About
• The 30th edition, February, will be hosted by A D.C. Birding Blog

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to:

• the Canine Carnival hosted by Pamibe

• The Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings

has been out of operation since July 2007

For other current carnivals check out The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival