MILWAUKEE - The Wisconsin Humane Society says it will buy
and close one of the largest dog breeding facilities in the nation.


The society said Friday it will find new homes for the more than
1,100 dogs at the kennel.


Cory Smith of the Humane Society of the United States says this
may be a first-of-its-kind effort by a local humane society to deal
with so-called puppy mills.


The Wisconsin society says Wallace Havens agreed to sell the
Puppy Haven Kennel in Markesan because he plans to retire. The
society did not give a sale price.
Havens did not immediately return a message left by The
Associated Press.


American Kennel Club spokeswoman Daisy Okas says the club
suspended and fined Havens in 2006 over conditions at his kennel.


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Information from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
http://www.jsonline.com