Showdogs are not working dogs by any stretch of the imagination. It's a hobby that maybe some take too seriously or manage to make a lot of money from. But they are the exceptions rather than the rule. A hobby breeder OR a professional? Most people I know that show and are basically what would be classed as hobby breeders are as professional in their showing and breeding as is possible to be. Their dogs are also their pets first and showdogs/breeders second as any dog shown or bred from is only going to spend a small amount of their time doing those things. Even the dogs that are kennelled usually have house time, time in a large run socialising, human attention/affection daily and are paired up so they are not alone.

If you are talking about anybody who crates their showdogs and breeding stock up for most of their lives for 20 hours a day and has 20-30 adult/breeding dogs at a time with a couple a litters on the go all the time isn't a person I'd buy a dog off, no matter how many champions they had bred. They are a smallish scale puppy farm under another name. And that was the whole point of my original post in this thread, who I would buy a puppy off and the standards I'd expect. And I personally would consider those people bad breeders/owners and any adult dogs they sell on (as I doubt they'd give them away) are far better off out of that kind of canine battery farm.