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.

Cool Animal Meme: Regualar contributor Bora (with a bost from Anton) has launched a nifty Interesting Animal Meme. You are now tagged! Go play!

Cats

• The Scratching Post: All Chicks in Bikinis, all the Time ~ Rowr
• House of Chaos: The masters’ entrance
• Catymology: The cat according to Pablo Neruda
• The Poor Mouth: Can’t a cat have a wash in peace?
• Sisu: Babe inspects the Harvest Meatloaf
• Siani’s Pot-Pourri: Demon Kitty!
• Val’s Bien: Catnip High ~ Tigger
• Texas Oasis: First Purrrsday in October
• stillpoint: rethinking the whole basket idea…
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Zipster
• Allan Thinks: Cat-Like Reflects
• Dragonheart’s Domain: Frootbat Friday & Desktop Meme
• Manx Mnews: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Boo
• Take Joy!: It’s MY Catnip!
• What A Good Cat: Traditional Friday Cat Blogging ~ Miss Caitie at the ready
• Elms in the Yard: <Sabbatical Cat?
• Blog d’Elisson: Clutched ~ Matata grabs the groodies
• The MisAdventures of Rico Loco: Something New
• Chasing Grace: Cozy Kitty
• Mind of Mog: Tongue ‘n Toes Thursday #14 ~ Meowza and Togetherness, Bliss ~ Meowza and Keefe
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Cotton is a fast runner
• Watermark: Feline Superiority
• Reading in the Dark: Friday Cat Blogging
• T.Bird On A Wire: Wordless Wednesday
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Sammy and Frankie
• Women Who Serve: Friday Cat Blogging ~ hanging loose edition
• No Deep Thoughts: Friday Cat Blogging ~ Something cat related came in this box
• Perfectly Parker: Formerly Feral Friday ~ My Kinder and Gentler Side and Diamond the Dog
• This, That & The Other Thing: Feline Friday ~ Bad Kitty Cats This Weekend!
• Sugarfused: Wish I had better news ! Sugar
• composite drawlings: Friday Catblog ~ science class — types of energy
• Imeowza: Down And Dirty
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday ~ Alone Time ~ Miss Lyra
• Mind of Mog: Finally Friday ~ Jezi, Bazel and Meowza and Caturday
• Welcome to Rascal’s World: Fun? Friday
• mehitabel’s musings: Friday Cats ~ Shyla and Highland boarded 10/6
• WTF Is IT Now!?!?: “Hai. Happy Caturday!” boarded 10/6
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging and more ~ Happy Tail boarded 10/6
• Meditation Matters: Friday cat blogging! Simon boarded 10/6
• xenogere /strange behavior/: Can you recognize it? Vazra boarded 10/6

Dogs

• just one sheep: Run For Your Life!
• Books at Eclectics: 16 pounds of sass!
• composite drawlings: Dogblog ~ You WILL take me outside
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog: Sasha and Dexter ~ In Praise of Dexter
• X-TREME Tea Time: Friday Puppy
• Scratchings & Sniffings: Darcie
• Shrike & Whozat: Wordless Wednesday #29 ~ Dog-Tied
• Perfectly Parker: Formerly Feral Friday ~ My Kinder and Gentler Side and Diamond the Dog
• Somewhere In NJ: Four month pupdate ~ Luka

Birds

• Naturalist Notebook: I and the Bird #59
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature
• Somewhere In NJ: Things to do at Cape May ~ Count the Skimmers
• Susan Gets Native: Eleven vultures and a plane
• T.Bird On A Wire: Wordless Wednesday
• Trevor’s Birding: Rainbow Lorikeet
• Birdchick Blog: Crow cams
• Birdfreak Birding Blog: Phriday Photo ~ Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Ben Cruachan Blog: A little bit of this, and a little bit of that.; boarded 10/6
• A DC Birding Blog: Loose Feathers #118 ~ Song Sparrow and more birding news; boarded 10/5
• The Brownstone Birding Blog: Birders of Prey boarded 10/06

Invertebrates

• The Annotated Budok: Circus of the Spineless #25
• Wanderin’ Weeta With Waterfowl (and Weeds): Astounding! Green Caterpillar
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod ~ Great googly-moogly! ~ Glass SquidTeuthowenia pellucida
• Snail’s Tales: interesting animal meme ~ Chiton, Helix aspersa shell and eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)
• (sometimes)photoblog: Birthday Butterflies and Bumblebee In Flight
• Niches: Pretties ~ Acrea Tiger Moth and Marbled Orb Weaver boarded 10/6
• Ben Cruachan Blog: Imperial White butterfly; boarded 10/6
• catalogue Of Organisms: Taxon of the Week: Eye of the Spiderboarded 10/6
• Desert Cat’s Paradise: Buggy boarded 10/6

Other Vertebrates

• Diamondcat’s Xanga: Polar Bears
• Shrimp and Grits: Friday Cat Food ~ Let sleeping frogs lie
• What Do I Know?: Friday Calf Blogging
• Southern Highlands Cam: Harvest Time ~ Deer
• Rosa’s Yummy Yums: The Last Wonderful Visions of Green ~ Cows
• Snail’s Tales: interesting animal meme ~ Chiton, Helix aspersa shell and eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)
• Farmgirl Fare: Staredown
• The Urban Pantheist: Zoo Hospital ~ Dead Newt boarded 10/6

In Memoriam

• . . .You Are A Tree: Sleep Well, My Friend ~ Demon
• House of Chaos: Critter
• Darling Millie: Jasmine has gone to the Bridge

Didn’t Make It

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Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• green gabbro: Friday Rock Blogging ~ Berea Sandstone

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. Also, there are more doggies at Weekend Dog Blogging hosted this weekend by Sweetnicks.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 184th edition, 9/30, is up at Life from a Cat’s Perspective . The 185th edition will be hosted on 10/7 by Stranger Ranger. There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging #120 hosted on 10/6-7 by Paulchen’s Food Blog?!. 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 59th edition is up and hosted by Naturalist Notebook. The 60th edition will be hosted on 10/18 by the Search and Serendipity.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 25th edition is up and hosted by The annotated budak. The 26th edition will be hosted at the end of October by The Other 95%.

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

Note for Haloscan Users:

Over the past month or so Haloscan started (the end of July) handling of trackbacks has improved though it is still pretty broken for carnival type posts. Now, instead of rejecting every attempt to ping it accepts single pings for a while and then will start rejecting them. I will keep trying to track back to Haloscan boarders but can make no guarantees for any particular week.

Note for Typepad Users:

Typepad continues to behave similar to Haloscan for trackbacks. I been able to get trackbacks to most, if not all, Typepad based boarders. I have to do it one at a time and wait a while in between pings but Typepad does not go into semi-permanent rejection mode like Haloscan.