Sometimes it's better to skip the legal wrangling altogether and move directly to settlement options -- like purchasing puppy mills from negligent owners rather than asking the state to shut them down by way of a lawsuit.  

Not only do you avoid the high transaction costs of engaging the machinery of the legal system, you waste no time when time means continued suffering. 

Here's the New York Times article -- Wisconsin Anti-Pupply Mill Tactic -- reporting that the Wisconsin Humane Society took the fast track to end suffering by

buy[ing] and clos[ing] one of the nation’s largest dog-breeding facilities.

Cory Smith of the Humane Society of the United States says the effort may be the first time a chapter has dealt with the issue of so-called puppy mills by buying one of them. The Wisconsin society said it would find homes for the more than 1,100 dogs at the Puppy Haven Kennel in Markesan. An American Kennel Club spokeswoman, Daisy Okas, says the club suspended and fined the kennel’s owner in 2006 over the facility’s conditions.

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