[Michael Romanos]

I would find it impossible to reply to this thread and do it justice. Such a complicated subject matter.
New Zealand has a tiny population in a fairly sizeable (11th largest island in the world) land mass with over 90 percent of the land inhabitable for humans and a moderate climate. Therefore we are a very suitable country for all breeds of dogs to live in and we are a world leading dog breeding nation on a per capita basis with one dog for every eight humans.
We have a dog attack problem with far too many despicable dog owners, too many unhappy, badly adjusted dogs and not enough people with or without dogs who understand the psyche of a dog. We have also been slack in allowing fighting breeds of dogs into the country and in not imposing some controls on dogs that are the locking jaw type. But we don't have a huge abandoned dog problem. We have council-owned dog pounds and we have SPCA organisations and we have a few animal rescue groups. I run a pure bred Corgi rescue adjunct to the WWCWC for the region I live in. We have many fine regular dog breeders whose dogs are sought after in many parts of the world. I think we have only one large puppy mill - and that was a Wheaton Terrier Kennel whose owner is in the process of being prosecuted in court. But we do have some breeders who provide Designer Dog breeds for pet shops etc. Our pet shops sell relatively few puppies.
We do believe in advertising puppies for sale through the usual methods of advertising. The cost of buying a pedigree puppy here is much less than in the USA - the cheapest breed to buy are both Pem and Cardi Corgis (for no particular reason). A hobby breeder ( I call them casual breeders) is treated no differently to a regular breeder. You can get special dispensation to keep X-amount of dogs from a council provided you don't live in any area that maybe zoned against keeping more than three dogs over 12 months of age.