1.   Dogs have always been tolerated in the Chinese countryside in working roles like guarding flocks and in some regions as a source of food.

2.   On the most remote and barren reaches, robed shepherds stood guarding their flocks of goats or sheep.

3.   Photographs published with the report showed people who were Asiatic in appearance, many wearing reindeer hide clothing and guarding their flocks with long wooden lances.

4.   A shepherd guarding his flock was killed in an explosion Thursday in south Lebanon near the Israeli-occupied zone, security officials said.

5.   The roots of yodeling are in the calls of the mountain shepherds guarding their flock.