For Cats and Dogs, Life Is a Bowl of … (New York Times) What exactly are pet owners getting when they buy their pet food? [News Source]

Homeland Security vet: Foot-and-mouth outbreak would be deadly to state livestock industry. Disease has not been seen in U.S. since 1929, but would spread quickly if it reappeared from another country's animals. [News Source]

Japan wants Lexington Tyson plant taken off exporter list (Kearney Hub) TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government has asked Washington to remove a Nebraska processing plant from a list of facilities authorized to export beef to Japan and urged America to raise efforts to ensure shipments meet safety guidelines, officials said Friday. [News Source]

Commission Rejects All-Terrain Park (The Morning News) BENTONVILLE -- Tahni Rogers of Stone Ridge Estates said she would leave the Bentonville area if the city approved a proposed recreational, all-terrain park near where she lives. [News Source]

Fayetteville Gets To Business After Tax Dip (The Morning News) FAYETTEVILLE -- Things just aren't what they used to be for Fayetteville, Mayor Dan Coody said Friday morning. When people in Northwest Arkansas wanted to buy something, they came to Fayetteville. [News Source]

Tyson Foods Beef Plant Snubbed By Tokyo (The Morning News) Japan recently asked that a Tyson Foods Inc. beef processing plant be removed from the government's approved list of eligible export suppliers. This latest move by the Japanese comes a month after trade was banned from a Lexington, Neb., beef packing plant owned by Tyson Fresh Meats, because it did not contain the proper documentation. [News Source]

Mesa man behind animated film (The Arizona Republic) Secret Pass, a little known piece of Arizona on the edge of Bullhead City used historically by American Indians, will be in the spotlight, thanks to an animated movie inspired partly by a Mesa resident. [News Source]