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Friday Ark #54

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. And do link to the Friday Ark whether you use trackbacks or not.

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 80th edition will be hosted this week by Music and Cats. 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 7th edition is up and hosted by the Bird Treatment Center, Anchorage, Alaska.

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

Alert: There will be no updates today between 11:30 AM and 4:30 PM EDT.

Cats

• Blog d'Elisson: Nesting Instinct: Hakuna and Matata
• Elms in the Yard: A Visit with the Lady in Red
• Sisu: Tomorrow's Another Day and A Sphinx Moment (reprise)
• Melange: As Good As It Gets: Maggie and Nicky and I've Got a Secret: Clover and Chloe
• Word Whammy: Friday Cat Bloggin': Golly and Archie
• enrevanche: Box Fugue in G(ato) Minor
• The Conservative Cat: Catblogging: A Tap Upside the Head
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday: Look into my eyes...
• Running Scared: Friday Cat Blogging: We have been remiss
• Manx Mnews: Friday Cat Blogging - Catarazzi: Boo's Answer
• Texas Oasis: Friday Caffeine Cat Fiend
• No Deep Thoughts: Friday Cat blogging: Rafe and Rhett
• Smijer: Doggies in Dreamland and I've been seeing a lot of these
• pages turned: The newest member of the family: Ellie the bob-tailed kitten
• The Peach Pit: Go Away I'm Sleeping
• Striving for Average: Want free entertainment? A Cat and a Box
• Mensa Barbie: The Birthday Collar
• I am the Goober Queen: It's a tough job.... and Steve Martin singing King Tut
• This Blog is Full of Crap: Nardo likes to taunt me
• Josh's Weblog: Feline Friday: Church and Snowball catching a nap
• IMAO: Friday Catblogging: Nardo the Orangeboy shreddinng a wad of paper
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging - The Usual Suspects: Tonto, Mittens and the Lone Ranger
• i-pets.com blog: Friday Cat Blog: Smoke growing up
• Athenamama: Halloween Ebby
• Prophet or Madman: Otis blank(et)s out
• Lab Kat: Friday Cat Blogging: Pixel: A Study in Pink
• Basic Juice: Privacy Please: May I Have A Bit of Privacy?
• Rook's Rant: Look Cats!
• Where the Dolphins Play: Feline Friday: Pillows Are Over-rated
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Frankie, Phil and Paz
• The Blue Parrot: Friday Catblogging: Lazy cat is a redundancy no?
• The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire: Happy Vampire Cat Blogging Friday
• the tao of me: Feline Friday - Ambush: Siofra
• The Common Room: They're sooooo cuuuuuute
• Cascade Exposures: Jobsite Forekitty checking my work
• Curiouser and Curiouser: Catblog Friday: Harley on a barstool
• Watermark: Friday Cat Blogging: They just are photogenic, aren't they?
• The Oubliette: friday catblogging: McCullough is completely shameless...
• Ded Space: Friday Cat Blogging: Snug at Home
• Fiat Lux: Friday Cat Blogging: Welcome Bear!
• feministe: We got to visit three-week-old kittens...
• Just Between Strangers: Thursday Kitten Blogging! Pasha
• It's Morning Somewhere: Friday cat blogging: Superstar Saddie
• The Invisible Library: Morning Light: Lucy
• Lawyers, Guns and Money: Friday Cat Blogging: Midnite
• Multi Medium: Friday Quote & Cat Blogging: Mocha
• MacPhoenix: Friday Catblogging: The Invitations
• Maggie's Meanderings: this sooooo needs a caption
• Meditation Matters: Friday Cat Blogging! Henry
• Mike: Now It's Bathtubs
• Mind of Mog: It's Friday
• eatstuff: Weekend Cat Blogging #17: Kiri and links to more culinary cats; boarded 10/1
• nycbabylon: Friday Catblog by MJ Cat starring in Ambien; boarded 10/1
• Pen Elayne: Friday Cat Blogging boarded 10/1
• Pandagon: The Return of the Friday Cat Blog: Molly boarded 10/1
• Jil in Pattaya: Friday Cat Blogging: Baby Photo boarded 10/1
• Eschaton: Friday Cat Blogging boarded 10/1
• BillyCreek: Friday Cat Blogging: Tipitina Version boarded 10/1
• Life Unbalanced: The Oracle boarded 10/1
• Le Blog de Juliette: Weekend Cat Blogging boarded 10/1
• Down deep in Texas: Friday Night Cat Blogging boarded 10/1
• Mad Times: Balance Is Everything Boarded 10/2
• Trish Wilson: Friday Cat Blogging: Oreo boarded 10/2
• Music and Cats: Carnival of the Cats #80

Invertebrates

• Snail's Tales: A Colorful Predator: Gulella bicolor
• Middle Fork: Bee Mimic on Crocus
• Smijer: Doggies in Dreamland and I've been seeing a lot of these
• Dope on the Slope: Weekly Intertebrate Blogging: Three Little Hoppers
• milkriverblog: Circus of the Spineless #1
• WoodSong: Carniverous Butterfly: Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius)
• Henry's Webiocosm Blog: Yellow Jacket

Dogs

• Messy Christian: Prayer campaign: Free Jasor
• Tbogg: Thursday Night Basset Blogging: Lil'Baby Satchmo
• Cybervassals: He Does Like To Sleep
• I am the Goober Queen: It's a tough job....and Steve Martin singing King Tut
• Athenamama: Baby Jackie
• The Common Room: He's a People Person Really
• Echidne Of The Snakes: Hank
• Doug Petch.Com: Blog Your Dog Dogs: Three Happy Hounds
• Mickey's Musings: Carnival of the Dogs
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog - Samiliar Places: Taffy and Sasha boarded 10/1

Birds

• Bird Treatment and Learning Center: I and the Bird #7
• 10,000 Birds: Desert In The Rain: Vermillion Flycatcher and Greater Roadrunner
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature: Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Living the Scientific Life: Barn Swalloow, Hirundo rustica, and a flock of other birds in Birds in the News #29
• The Common Room: Duck in the Creek
• Crows Really Are Wise: Find the Northern Potoo
• On Location With Rick Lee: Red-tail Hawk boarded 10/1

Other Vertebrates

• Rurality: Rough Green Snake (Opheodrys aestivus)
• milkriverblog: Not-Really-A-Cat-Friday: Hog-nosed Skunk (Conepatus mesoleucus)
• Farmgirl Fare: It's A Name the Sheep Contest
• Fake Handbags v3.0: Dewey Eats Books
• Hoarded Ordinaries: Bullfrog and Red Eft
• Watermark: Sunday Squirrel Blogging boarded 10/2

In Memoriam

• Sisu: "I named him Mikey because he was so tiny"

Didn't Make It

• A Stitch In Haste: Jurassic Web: Life Imitates Michael Chrichton: Prehistoric Spider
• Paleoblog: Taarbosaurus et al. boarded 10/1

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• the skwib: Baboon-Washing Club Rules
• Mad Times: Lost Glove #61
• The Oubliette: proof of my fun evening: dragon's head or snake's head

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 30, 2005