The true reason why the animal rights activists are screaming is that to them, ANY breeder is a PM, and they can go city by city and flimflam the gullible political animals into passing "feel good" legislation that is not truly animal welfare, but intended to eliminate pet breeding altogether. The H$U$ has tried on a federal level, unsuccessfully so far, and even on a state level, mostly unsuccessfully so far, so they are working on local entities that often are not aware of how anti-breeding these "animal rights"-led organizations are. The AR "true believers" have an endgame of eliminating ALL pet breeding over time, but they recognize that it has to be done incrementally, and they use Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals' tactics, which include marginalizing and demonizing the target group (in this case, pet breeders) in order to turn society against them. This older article in "Psychology Today" spells out the animal rights agenda steps: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-dogs-go-heaven/201202/the-animal-rights-agenda-25-years-later