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N.D. (AP) – A Wheatland, North Dakota dog breeder has been charged with animal neglect after 168 of the animals were seized from an apparent puppy mill.

The Forum reports that 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.