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 board the Friday Ark by submitting your post here, leaving a comment or a trackback to this post or emailing fridayark AT themodulator.org. NOTE: Trackbacks seem to broken right now.

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

Cats

• A Chocolate Bouquet: Our New Babies
• House of Chaos: Felis Catus, the opportunistic hedonist
• Blog d’Elisson: Peek-A-Boo ~ hakuna hides…
• Musings of a Mad Macedonian: Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat #25 ~ Crisis Hits 2 CatBlogging Institutions and #26 It’s Chrissymouse Time! Santa Paws is Coming!
• The Poor Mouth: Bebe
• Places and People, My View with A Laugh: A Piece of Furniture
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Flowers: Grey Feather and Rocky Girl
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Real Life Re-Run: Excise, Income and Property
• No Deep Thoughts: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Trouble
• Perfectly Parker: So Pretty
• This, That & The Other Thing: Feline Friday ~ Munchkin’s Condo
• Edhat: Cat of the Week ~ Nutmeg
• This Blog is Full of Crap: Lapcat ~ Bruwyn
• bloggo chicago: Friday Cat Blogging #72 ~ CSI – Unintentional Grounding: Hee Seop and Angelo
• devizes melting pot: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Heidi and George
• Prarie Bluestem: Joys of Cathood ~ Skittles curls up with a good book
• Bad Attitudes: Friday’s Cat
• It’s All Good.: Today at Tabby’s ~ Monica and Chandler
• Save Moki: Purrs For Moki
• Purrchance To Dream: Jack in a Box
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Dash and Reine
• Gardening Under the Florida Sun: Lookin’ a Little Rough ~ Poor Cotton
• Feline Rescue, Inc.: I’m all better! Betty Boop
• Cat of Nine Tales: Storytime – A Serious Lessson
• The Poupenette: “Thei-Chan Thneaks In…”
• Crazy Cat Lady Carm: PURRSday- SuPURR Joy
• Welcome to Rascal’s World: Floor’s Cold
• Our Furry Boys: Sleeping Beauty (in the eye of the beholder) boarded 12/12
• Allan Thinks:Wait. What? boarded 12/12
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging ~ a rainy morning:Luna watches… boarded 12/12
• WTF Is IT Now!?!?: Wait, let me fix that for you… boarded 12/12
• Elms in the Yard: Three Cats seen around town… boarded 12/12
• The Sour dough: >Weekend Cat Blogging #236
• Poppy Q: Busy Week boarded 12/13
• Rusty’s World: Easy Like Sunday boarded 12/13

Birds

• Outside My Window: Passing Through
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature
• Vickie Hendeson Art: White-throated Sparrow and Squirrel
• Tylerfarm Homestead: Winter on the farm…..Sheep, Junco and Otis
• Great Auk – or Greatest Auk?: Hard Case Makes Bad Law ~ The Face of Evil?
• Bird Ecology Study Group: Brown Hawk Owl finds a home
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): At least towhees are towhees
• Ecobirder: Pied-billed Grebe and Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Rock Paper Lizard: Cold and hungry
• The Fenland Walker: A Great Little Bird
• Here, There, and Everywhere 2nd edition: Moorhens, Heron and Cormorants
• 10,000 Birds: What is a Bird’s Crop?
• Viewing Nature With Eileen: Winter yardbirds for my Project feedercount
• Living the Scientific Life: Today’s Mystery Bird for you to identify
• Hakodate Birding: Another morning with the Brents
• pitsswood birds: Siskin and Nuthatch
• Rural Ramblings: Why would you do that? African Grey Parrot boarded 12/12
• The Ohio Nature Blog: Thoreau Lake boarded 12/13

Dogs

• Edhat: Dog of the Week ~ Bella
• Greenbow: FOS Snow!! Luna
• Tylerfarm Homestead: Winter on the farm…..Sheep, Junco and Otis
• Adventures of Freckles and Deb: Figs and Freckles
• Maggie’s Farm: Dog du jour ~ Clumber Spaniel
• Cactus Blog: Friday Whippet Blogging
• Throwback At Trapper Creek: Unusually cold here
• Cicero Sings: Boots Made for Walkin’
• Milepebbles: It’s Not a Fox…
• The Adventures of Max Dog: Christmas Shopping ~ Canine Style
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog ~ Tempting time: Sasha and Dexter
• The Musketeers: Brotherly Love
• Kelly the Little Black Dog: How many dogs does it take to change a light bolb? boarded 12/12
• My Wildlife Sanctuary: Soggy Safari Sunday ~ Nella and the Rat boarded 12/13

Other Vertebrates

• Montanagirl: Winter Whitetail
• The Food Pornographer: Canning Show 2009 ~ Food and Alpacas
• Vickie Hendeson Art: White-throated Sparrow and Squirrel/li>
• Tylerfarm Homestead: Winter on the farm…..Sheep, Junco and Otis
• Lagamorph Life: Pepper enjoys A Little Smoothie
• Adventures of Freckles and Deb: Figs and Freckles
• My Wildlife Sanctuary: Soggy Safari Sunday ~ Nella and the Rat boarded 12/13

Invertebrates

• Kind of Curious: Daddy Long Legs Daddies (aka Harvestman)
• Winter Birder…: Last moth… a male Winter Moth
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod ~ Say hello to my little friend: Enteroctopus dofleini boarded 12/12

In Memoriam

• What Do I Know: Bailey Pink, March 18 2001 – December 9, 2009

Didn’t Make It

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Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• Cactus Blog: Brougham
• Niches: Mystery Mushroom

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 299th edition, 12/6, is up at CatSynth
  • The 300th edition , 12/13, will be hosted at Carnival of the Cats

• Weekend Cat Blogging which goes up every weekend
• The 235th edition, 12/5-6, is up at Paulchen’s Foodblog?!
• The 236th edition, 12/12-13, will be hosted by The Sour Dough
• Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos which goes up monthly
• The 110th edition, 12/7, is hosted by Kashim & Othello and Salome
• The 111th edition, 1/3/10, will be hosted by TBD
• 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 114th edition , 12/3 is up at The Life of a Bird Tour Leader
• The 115th edition, 12/17, will be hosted by xenogere

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

• The 45th edition, December, is up at Greg laden’s Blog
• The 46th edition, January, will be hosted by Life Photo Meme

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to:

• The Canine Carnival hosted by Pamibe last year is on hiatus an looking for a new sponsor

• 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