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Friday Ark #53

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....?

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.

Visit each border and come back regularly Friday-Sunday to visit new boarders.

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 78th edition will be hosted this week by Yourish.com. There are more weekly cats at eatstuff's Weekend Cat Blogging which has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants.

Bird folks: Remember to submit your links to I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers. The 6th edition is up and hosted by Bird Chick.

New for the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles will be posting its first edition on September 30 hosted by: Milk River Blog.

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

Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.

Cats

• Blog d'Elisson: Meet Tucker
• Sisu: Identifying Pork and You'll Probably Have to Wait Days
• Melange: The Legend of Sleepy Cat Hollow and Smooth Operator
• The Conservative Cat: Catblogging: Thrones
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Right Foot Conspiracy
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday: Lyra's Horn Buds
• Poetic Leanings: Friday Cat Blogging: Staying Current
• Texas Oasis: Feline Friday: You lookin' at me?
• enrevanche: Mr. Gato: Holding My Spot For Me
• i-pets.com blog: Friday Cat Blog: Grace, hiding in plain site
• Inside Allan's Mind: Cat Blog Friday: Alf
• The Peach Pit: Wine Sentinal
• Elms in the Yard: Hillel and Her Ladyship
• Athenamama: Happy Birthday My Beautiful Thalia
• Lab Kat: Friday Cat Blogging: Pixel: The Queen of Chilling Out
• 7610: Please Help the Animals in the Gulf
• I am the Goober Queen: You can't see meeee....
• Basic Juice: Feline Hedonism: Bussi
• Josh's Weblog: Feline Friday: Dust bunny and Feline Friday: Bonus
• Where the Dolphins Play: Feline Friday: Hunting with Hobbes
• This Blog is Full of Crap: The Cats Before the Storm
• The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire: Happy Vampire Cat Blogging Friday
• Mind of Mog: Izzy eagerly awaits Nardo's observations on Rita
• Ali Thinks: Cat Blog Friday: Slick-a-Leekie!
• 2 / 10: Friday Cat bloggin': Go ahead. Make my day...
• Watermark: Silly Kitties
• Middle Fork: Lady Fishes for Skritches
• Manx Mnews: Friday Cat Blogging - Don't Mess With Texas: Abby's watching out for you
• Ballard Avenue: Friday Cats: Blue Eyes
• Curiouser and Curiouser: Gizmo and Tinker
• Washington Monthly: Wednesday Kitten Blogging
• Computers, Society, and Nature: Aussie Cat: Mr. Big
• Overtaken by Events: cutest kittens ever
• Eschaton: Friday Cat Blogging
• Far Cartouche: Lady is Head Over Heels
• Fiat Lux: Thursday Kitten Blogging: Mable
• Dohiyi Mir: Flying Catblogging
• Ded Space: Friday Cat Blogging: Storm Warning
• diary of a Mad Cat: Pink Flamingos
• bloggg: No, It's Not Chessie... It's The Feak
• The Blue Parrot: Friday Catblogging: Doby is Going Gray
• The Oubliette: friday catblogging: Mac Weighs In on Hurricane Rita
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Frankie, Phil and Paz
• the tao of me: Feline Friday - Fall Decorating: Siofra
• The Common Room: Cooler Weather: Our Kittens have decided it's snuggle time
• eatstuff: Weekend Cat Blogging #16
• The Hair Ball: Shelf Buddies
• It's Morning Somewhere: Friday Cats: anything you want, you sweet darlings
• Just Between Strangers: Sometimes even Pixel needs a nap; boarded 9/24
• Lawyers, Guns and Money: Friday Cat Blogging: Lizardo and Nola boarded 9/24
• Sisu: Tiny Enjoys a sphinx moment; boarded 9/24
• Mike: Someone Isn't Feeling Good: Psycho boarded 9/24
• Meditation Matters: Friday Cat Blogging! Nap time for Henry boarded 9/24
• masak-masak: Weekend Cat Blogging: Meow Meow boarded 9/24
• Maggie's Meanderings: Roxie and Carlos boarded 9/24
• Mad Times: Cozy Boy boarded 9/24
• The Dupont: Porch Blogging: Cute Little Cat boarded 9/24
• Daily Moments From the Fisher Family: It's Been A While boarded 9/24
• Trish Wilson: Belated Friday Cat Blogging: Lucky boarded 9/24
• Cleek: Saturday Cat Blogging boarded 9/24
• Multi Medium: Friday Quote & Cat Blogging: Princesa and her new, um, playmate. boarded 9/24
• Liberty's Blog: Mode Shift: Cocodoesn't seem impressed; boarded 9/24
• nycbabylon: Friday Catblog by MJ Cat boarded 9/24
• Number 2 Pencil: They Let Me Know When I'm Late boarded 9/24
• No Capital: Lunchtime boarded 9/24
• Look Hunny, I Cooked: Weekend Cat Blogging: Jazz boarded 9/24
• ElHombre: Friday Cat Blogging: Janis boarded 9/24
• Balloon Juice: Friday Cat Blogging: Some kitty porn for you boarded 9/24
• Pink Kitty's Scratching Post: Meet The New Kitties!!!! Smith and Wesson boarded 9/24
• Semi-Random Ramblings: More Kitty Porn added 9/25
• Susie and the City: Kitty Penthouse and Just One Thin Treat boarded 9/25
• Su ap led Wo d: Cat Sofa boarded 9/25
• Sugarfused: Gitchee Gitchee Goo boarded 9/25
• Strange Ranger: Maddie's 5th Birthday boarded 9/25
• Stone Bridge: Friday cat blogging: Grendel and Gray boarded 9/25
• Upper Left: Every Week Audrey Hepcatjust lays there; boarded 9/25
• TrailGrams: Carolina Wrens and Panda boarded 9/25
• yourish.com: Carnival of the Cats #79

Invertebrates

• Snail's Tales: Backyard Bugs II: Banded Net-wing (Calopteron reticulatum)
• Pharyngula: When Dining In Australia Avoid the Seafood
• Dope on the Slope: Thursday Intertebrate Blogging: Katydid (?) and Yellow Jacket
• Henry's Webiocosm Blog: Friday Butterfly Blogging: The Viceroy, Limenitis archippus
• Fragments from Floyd: Web Nursery -- III: Nursery Web Spider and Grasshopper
• milkriverblog: Not-Really-A-Cat-Friday: Five-spotted Hawkmoth (Pachysphinx modesta)

Dogs

• Striving for Average: Yea I know, he's just a dog, but he's my dog
• Athenamama: Where's Jacqueline?
• The Alternate Brain: Airlift/Friday Cattle Dog Blogging: Princess Shayna
• Doug Petch.Com: Blog Your Dog: Caroline with friends Annie and Ben
• The Common Room: Tricks of the Dog: Zeus
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog - Separate Ways: Taffy and Sasha
• Maggie's Meanderings: Roxie and Carlos boarded 9/24
• Rhetoric and Democracy: Saturday Puppy Blogging: 5 Month Old Bonnie boarded 9/24
• Mensa Barbie: Not My Dog. No Way.. boarded 9/24
• Scribblings: Dog Blogging Buddy boarded 9/25

Birds

• Watermark: Birdie Bums
• Living the Scientific Life: Albino Turkey Vulture, Cathartes aura and much more in Birds in the News #28
• Dharma Bums: The Birds: Cedar Waxwings
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature: Hummingbird
• 10,000 Birds: Two Fall Warblers: Blackpoll and Black-and-white
• bootstrap analysis: berries jubilee: Gray Catbird
• Birdchick Blog: Franklin's Gulls
• Bird Treatment and Learning Center: New Home for Kodie
• The Common Room: Do You Have Your Ducks in a Row?
• Mensa Barbie: Safety From The Storm boarded 9/24
• Rurality: Indian Runner Ducks boarded 9/25
• TrailGrams: Carolina Wrens and Panda boarded 9/25
• Thomasburg Walks: Kinglet and Warbler boarded 9/25

Other Vertebrates

• Publius & Co.: Kanga and Zoe Chill Out and Hello, Woodland Creature
• African Wildlife Federation: Bongo, Boocercus euryceros
• First Draft: Friday Ferret Blogging
• Farmgirl Fare: Daily Farm Photo: Donkey Doodle Dandy
• Daniel Thomas: Monday Squirrel Blogging
• The Laughing Wolf: Friday Wolf Blogging: Chetan boarded 9/24
• Lawyers, Guns and Money: Friday Cat Blogging: Lizardo and Nola boarded 9/24
• Watermark: Saturday Squirrel Blogging boarded 9/24

In Memoriam

• Dharma Bums: When You Love A Dog: Farewell Sadie
• Poor Impulse Control: Friday Cat Blogging: Zorak

Didn't Make It

• The Hairy Museum of Natural History: Dispatch from the Permocarboniferous: Temnospondyls Take Three: Dissorophid Dynasties boarded 9/25

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• The Blue Parrot: Friday Cat Hat blogging
• Bird on the Moon: Happy Friday: One Blooming Big Bunny
• Inscribed on the Forest Floor: Autumnal Equinox: Feral Fruit

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 September 23, 2005