Sammy, a Shetland sheepdog, wouldn't touch his food, but instead retreated to a corner of the yard, paced in circles, and dug up and devoured mouthfuls of dirt — behavioral oddities that owner Linda Eroh later learned came from a lifetime of maltreatment Sammy endured as a "stud" in a large dog-breeding operation. The 10 years of caged confinement Sammy endured would be illegal under a bill signed late Thursday by Gov. Ed Rendell. The governor, who owns two rescued golden retrievers, and dog advocates hope the new law will help Pennsylvania shed its reputation as the "puppy mill" capital of the East. The Humane Society of the United States has counted Pennsylvania among a handful of states where lucrative, largely unregulated puppy mills are concentrated. The issue caught the attention of Oprah Winfrey after a suburban...
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