Breeds <span> The </span>indirect object<span> of a sentence is the recipient of the </span>direct object<span>. Furthermore, the indirect object comes between the verb and the direct object.
In this case breeds is the recipient of sled dogs. verb: are </span>
Mrs. Putnam gets it into her head that there must be a gigantic conspiracy between the Prince of Darkness and some of the supposedly God-fearing folk of Salem. That's what she means when she says "There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!"