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 find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page.

Cats

• The Scratching Post: Furball
• Blog d’Elisson: Boxing Day…
• House of Chaos: A clean lure
• Catnip corner: Wordless Wednesday ~ My blogging buddy Gidget
• The Poor Mouth: Bebe
• Val’s Bien: Christmas Stocking
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: The Struggle Continues
• Manx Mnews: ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
• Sisu: Tiny and the Babe, warm and fuzzy Tiny and Baby and Tiny and Baby test drove…
• Texas Oasis: Purrsday Night – Hot enough for ya?
• Pet’s Garden Blog: Feline Friday ~ The Look
• No Deep Thoughts: Meowy Christmas!
• Lab Kat: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Christmas Tree Edition: Pixel
• Watermark: Letter to Santa, from Spike & Boo/li>
• TacJammer: Fear The Tuxie
• Catymology: Winter solstice wishes
• Artsy Catsy: Secret Paws!!>
• The Big Piney Woods Cats: Time to Wake UP ~ Patches Lady
• Meditation Matters: Friday cat blogging! Simon
• Life from a Cat’s Perspective: Mancat Monday with Tigger
• composite drawlings: FridayCatblog ~ Christmas came a little early
• notes from the kelp: Cat Bath Friday
• Chase: Exausted
• The Neutral Zone Trap: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Tess
• Women Who Serve: Friday Cat Blogging ~ waiting for Santa edition
• Random Drift: Merry Christmas
• Happening Here: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Billie
• Coyote Mercury: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Simon In His Natural Habitat
• Mind of Mog: We Three Wusses
• anniemiz: Friday Cat Blogging ~ In Fine Fettle
• The Paw Path Cat Blog: Leo’s Silly Sleeping Positions
• Take Joy!: Resting in the Sun
• meeyauw: LOL Cat Bible ~ Lectionary Readings… Daisy the Holy Curly Cat boarded 12/22
• It’s Morning Somewhere: FCB ~ Idea for the season: Grey Feather boarded 12/22
• The Conservative Cat: Catblogging: Ferdinand and Bootsboarded 12/22
• Pen Elayne: Friday Cat Blogging boarded 12/22
• Blue Girl, Red State: Friday Catblogging ~ the kitten killed Kermit edition boarded 12/22
• House of the (Mostly) Black Cats: Dear Santa Paws boarded 12/22
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging and more ~ December morning boarded 12/22
• Murphies: Thanksgiving Came Late This Year… boarded 12/22
• Music and Cats: Feline Not Quite Friday ~ Peekaboo Sasha boarded 12/22
• iInfidel: Tree boarded 12/24

Birds

• Living the Scientific Life: Gull with Reflection, Sun and Sparkles, Bright Blue Tits Make Better Mothers and Male Broad-billed Hummingbird, Cynanthus latirostris. and more in Birds in the News #1110
• Outside My Window: Winter Solstice
• Birdfreak Birding Blog: Phriday Photo ~ The “Winter Warbler” of the Midwest
• Ecobirder: Another foray to Black Dog Lake
• Susan Gets Native: These are a few of my favorite things…. the RAPTOR edition
• Ellipsis: Goodnight Autumn
• Bill of the Birds: Snowflake the Junco boarded 12/22
• Sitka Nature: More February Mystery Gulls boarded 12/22

Dogs

• What Works For Us: Run Run Rudolph
• The dog log: The rescue story of Louie
• Val’s Bien: Casey, A Good Boy
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog: Sasha and Dexter live in the moment…
• composite drawlings: Dogblog ~ Oh, sigh
• The Dogs Breakfast: A Christmas Rebus
• Pet Monologues: The night before christmas
• The Voltage Gate: Look What I Found in My Driveway Yesterday ~ Oscar investigates…
• Gus The Blue Heeler: What you doing out there Dad?
• Nature Knitter: Christmas Daisy boarded 12/22
• Justin’s Random Thoughts: Chillin’ boarded 12-22
• Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic: Kyan Pup boarded 12/24

Other Vertebrates

• Greg laden’s Blog: Impala, Aepyceros melampus
• Smokey Mountain Breakdown: Friday Ark ~ Toofy the Cwissmas Beaver
• Living the Scientific Life: Mirror Image
• The Fluffy Tribe: Rat Boyz Secret Paw
• What Do I Know: Friday Cow Blogging
• Notes on Nature: Squirrels on your screen
• all things critters…especially pet rats: Finally…
• Snail’s Tales: Beaver’s unfinished business
• Paleoblog: Discovered This Day in 1938 ~ A Living Coelacanth
• Ontogeny: Macaque love boarded 12/22

Invertebrates

• The Backyard Arthropod Project: Lady Beetle, Mulsantina picta
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod ~ Clingy bottletail, Sepiadarium sp.
• Middle Fork: Dragonfly in Heaven 2
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature
• Neil Gaiman: Winter Butterflies
• Ellipsis: Goodnight Autumn
• Bug Girl’s Blog: Beetles and Assassin Bugs boarded 12/22

In Memoriam

• Collective Sigh: Randy
• Smokey Mountain Breakdown: Friday Ark ~ Babe ~ Go on and wait for me there…

Didn’t Make It

• Living the Scientific Life: Caracara creightoni

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• On Location With Rick Lee: Produce Blogging #108

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.

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:

• Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday
  • the 195th edition, 12/16, is up at Mind of Mog
  • The 196th edition, 12/23, will be hosted by Missy, KC nd Bear

• Weekend Cat Blogging which goes up every weekend
• The 132nd edition, 12/16-17, is up at Life From A Cat’s Perspective
• The 133rd edition, 12/22-23, will be hosted by A Byootaful Life
• Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos which goes up every weekend
• The 23rd edition, 12/16, is up at Bad Kitty Cats
• The 24th edition, 12/23, will be hosted by The Catboys Realm
• 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 64th edition, 12/13, is up at Iowa voice
• The 65th edition, 12/27, will be hosted by WildBird on the Fly

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

• The 26th edition, October, is up at The Other 95%
• The 27th edition, November, will be hosted by The Hawk Owl’s Nest

For other current carnivals check out The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival