What is a hobby breeder?

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Nirvana

not one single dog with my pedigrees is in any puppy mill in the United States or the world.

That seems like a rather bold statement - How exactly do you track them and their offspring and their offspring and so on?

Originally Posted by Nirvana

There are plenty of hobby breeders with the same value system I have.

And there are many who do not. The question is how to stop one while promoting more of the other.