A farm in central Massachusetts is doing things the old-fashioned way by using dogs to herd sheep, instead of ATVs. It's at Little Brook Farm in Sunderland where 6-year-old sheepdog Bett does her job.

A sheepdog trial champion says the skills needed to train the herding dogs are in danger of being lost. Shepherd Philip Walton and his border collie Scott, from Hethersgill, Cumbria, hope to defend ...