dogswheatlandFARGO, N.D. (AP Aug 23, 2013) – A Wheatland dog breeder has been charged with animal neglect after 168 of the animals were seized from an apparent puppy mill.
 
51-year-old Darcy Darrell Smith is charged with six counts of depriving an animal of necessary food and water, a misdemeanor.
 
     He waived his rights to the dogs three weeks after authorities found them stacked in cages three deep, some dogs five to a cage, in piles of their own feces and urine-soaked paper.
 
     No attorney was listed for Smith.