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Friday Ark #48

Cats, Dogs, Spiders and ? every Friday.

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....?

Alert! Alert! We will not be able to post updates to The Ark during the day Friday, Saturday or Sunday. We will try to catch up in the evenings. Also, be aware that trackbacks to Modulator have been having some problems so make sure yours works. If not use one of the other methods mentioned below.

We will add your post to the list if you do one of the following:

• Leave a comment or trackback to this post,
• Use the Carnival Submission Form,
• Email Modulator or
• Our extensive staff finds it during our weekly search of the web

Of course, if our staff goes on strike then we will link only those posts someone tells us about.

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey's Musings.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 74th edition will be hosted this week by Running Scared.

Bird folks: Remember to submit your links to I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers. The 4th edition is up at Milk River Blog.

And, check out Laurence's fine graphical analysis of Friday Ark boardings.

Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.

Cats

• Elms in the Yard: A Well-Versed Kittycat
• Mensa Barbie: Butterscotch: Smile Little Button Nose
• Sisu: Baby, Babe in Command, Tiny Snoozes and Baby Cakes Opinion
• Blog d'Elisson: Come to Mama and That Sinking Feeling
• enrevanche: Mister Gato: Your Biggest Fan
• Melange: Chloe: A Balancing Act
• Why Now?: Ringo: Biting the Hand That Feeds You
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday: Sergei: Lap Time
• Running Scared: Sassy, Colin and Spider
• The Conservative Cat: Ferdinand T. Cat: Guard Position
• i-pets.com blog: Glamorous Grace
• This Blog is Full of Crap: Piper, Frisdy and Nardo
• The Oubliette: friday catblogging: The Wild Eep
• Cathouse Chat: Catblogging Friday: the "Thank God I'm Home" edition
• Inside Allan's Mind: Cat Blog Friday: The anonymous French cat
• Prophet or Madman: Friday Pet Blogging: Otis is not camera shy
• Stand Up And Walk: Sammie: The Cat Patrol
• Lunar Obverse: Friday's pictures of Smacky
• Lab Kat: Coby is a bit of a Daddy's boy
• Middle Fork: Tinker Services The hard Spot To Reach
• Lisa Violet's Diary: Marco
• The Blue Parrot: Doby Is All Turned Around
• Where the Dolphins Play: The Cats in the Bag: Gryphon and Hobbes
• Ali Thinks: Bat Clog Friday or something like that
• 7610: Sometimes, Pip just gets too curious...
• Mind of Mog: Tasty Krissie and Meowza
• Real Art: Paz, Frankie and Phil
• Quite Early One Morning: Friday Catblogging: Molly boarded 8/21
• Watermark: Felineous Lassitude boarded 8/21
• Cafe Oregano: your kitchen staff: Chef Scooby and Dessert Chef Abbycat boarded 8/21
• TrailGrams: Panda: Hard Days Work; boarded 8/21
• Running Scared: Carnival of the Cats # 74: The Cat Days of Summer
• Skulls and Bats: James: Sombrero N�mero Tres, Rasta Mon!, and Happy to Pose boarded 8/22

Invertebrates

• Dharma Bums: Butterfly Bush
• Sisu: BuMble Bee Embraces its Beloved
• milkriverblog: Walnut sphinx Moth (Laothoe (Amorpha) juglandis)
• Snail's Tales: Pseudoscorpians
• afarensis: Baby Octopi Blogging: An Aurora Update
• Dope on the Slope: Thursday Blogging of Invertebrates: "dog-day" Cicada (Tibicen pruinosa)

Dogs

• pages turned: Puggy Gin: Our Very Bad Dog
• Athenamama: Flat Out Jacqueline
• Mickey's Musings: Carnival of the Dogs
• Duck Pond: Taffy, Sasha, horses and llama
• Basic Juice: Workin' Dogs: Cattle Herder Extraordinaire & Apprentice
• A Stitch In Haste: Diamond: Joys and Their Toys - Plushies
• Leslie's Omnibus: Rules of the Road
• JimBobby Sez: Ol' Spot an'the War on Squirrels
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature: Our Faithful Hound
• Mensa Barbie: The Flight Blanket boarded 8/20
• Cafe Oregano: your kitchen staff: Chef Scooby and Dessert Chef Abbycat boarded 8/21

Birds

• Milk River Blog: I and the Bird #4
• Elms in the Yard: This Morning Is for the Birds
• 10,000 Birds: A Downy Woodpecker
• Living the Scientific Life: Extinction is Forever: Superb Parrot Polytelis swainsonii, Jewel-bird, Pitta gurneyi, and the rest of Birds in the News #23
• Josh's Weblog: Orange Rooster Crows
• BTW: Somebody's Lurking boarded 8/21

Other Vertebrates

• Publius & Co.: Kanga has her Elizabethan Collar
• afarensis: Friday Chimpanzee Blogging
• Duck Pond: Taffy, Sasha, horses and Llama
• Watermark: Friday Squirrel Blogging
• The Corpus Callossum: Friday Horse BloggingChamp added 8/20
• Desert Cat's Paradise: Friday Fishblogging: Baja Dorado boarded 8/20
• The Oubliette: Aquarium Update boarded 8/20
• Secular Blasphemy: The Arrested Cow - and other animal tales; boarded 8/21

In Memoriam

Didn't Make It

• The Hairy Museum of Natural History: Dead Animal Blogging: Monkey-Lizard Edition

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat's Carnival Page and The TTLB Uber Carnival.

Note for Haloscan Users: Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted "too rapidly" by the same host. I don't know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I'm sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh....

Posted by Steve on August 19, 2005