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 board the Friday Ark by submitting your post here, leaving a comment or a trackback to this post or emailing fridayark AT themodulator.org.

You can find previous editions at the not quite up to date Arkives page.

Cats

• Elms in the Yard: Cats and Art
• Blog d’Elisson: Compu-Kitty
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Merry Catmas
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging ~ catfood: Grey Feather and Cotton
• Chey’s Place: Find Chey Friday
• Manx Mnews: What’s With This Green Thing
• This Blog is Full of Crap: Friday Catblogging ~ Nardo Asleep
• Texas Oasis Furbaby Friday ~ Henry’s opinion
• The Island Cats: Nipped Out!!!
• Mercury Rising: Friday Cat Blogging
• Life from a Cat’s Perspective: Finally Friday with Samantha & Mr. Tigger
• Catymology: The return of Santa Cat
• My Cats and Funny Stories: The Day After
• Daisy the Curly Cat: Happy Boxing Day!
• TacJammer: After-Action Report
• Phoebe, A Siamese Cat: Catnip Toys ~ Phoebe and Autumn
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Frankie and Sammy
• Wildrun: Presents for all
• Sisu: Chrismas eve will find me… and Feline Mind Games
• Cat Whisperer: Merry Christmas to All and to all a Good Snooze!!
• bloggg: Friday Kitten Blogging ~ Destructo Kitten!
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging ~ Art, Fun and Rest; boarded 12/27
• Musings of a Mad Macedonian: Think Good Thoughts for Brave Bess; boarded 12/27
• The Scratching Post: Christmas Cat boarded 12/27
• Mind of Mog: Finally Friday ~ Meowza boarded 12/27

Dogs

• Creek Running North: Chili Pepper Lights ~ Zeke
• What Do I Know: Merry Christmas
• D³: Santa Nap
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog ~ Holidays: Sasha and Dexter
• Dead Dog Walkin’: Dogpile and a href=”http://deaddogwalkin.blogspot.com/2008/12/santa-came.html” >Santa Came!
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature ~ Holiday Puppy
• The 4 Musketeers: Presenting our big boy !
• Three Happy Heelers: Christmas Napper!
• Cactus Blog: Friday Whippet Blogging
• The Scratching Post: It’s a Very Disposal Christmas boarded 12/27

Birds

• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Dinner with the family
• A DC Birding Blog: Loose Feathers #167 ~ Red Crossbill and more birding news
• Birding in Michigan: Call of a Blue Jay
• Mary’s View: Brown-headed Nuthatch or Eastern Bluebird?
• Trevor’s Birding Blog: Ibis Rookery
• Ecobirder: Birding Maplewood Nature Center
• Huckleberry Days: The Eagle Has Landed
• 10,000 Birds: ‘kamtschatschensis’ Common Gulls

Invertebrates

• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Gotta have my spider fix!
• skippy the bush kangaroo: hoppy kangaroo blogging friday
• No Cropping Zone: Portfolio Series 2008 Part 6
• Myrmecos Blog: Friday Beetle Blogging ~ Japanese macaque ( Macaca fuscata)
• Rat Sass: Introducing Carlos
• Rurality: Raccoons at the office

In Memoriam

• x

Didn’t Make It

• x

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• Living the Scientific Life: Pleurosigma (Marine Diatoms) 200X

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 249th edition, 12/21, is up at Nikita’s Place
  • The 250th edition, 12/28, will be hosted by Cat Blogosphere

• Weekend Cat Blogging which goes up every weekend
• The 185th edition, 12/20-21, is up at The M-Cats Club
• The 186th edition, 12/27-28, will be hosted by Paulchen’s Food Blog?!
• Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos which goes up every weekend
• The 76th edition, 12/21, is up at The Catboys Realm
• The 77th edition, 12/28, will be hosted by Tabbylicious
• 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 90th edition, 12/11, is up at the Jeffrey Gordon’s place
• The 91st edition, 1/8, will be hosted by From the Faraway, Nearby

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

• The 34th edition, June, is up at Gossamer Tapestry
• The 35th edition, July, will be hosted by TBD

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