What are the funny negative stereotypes of dog breeders? Any funny stories about the customer side of the experience? Or the breeder side?

I just had a less than ideal experience with an Akita breeder I was referred to. Basically it was a 2-3 minute phone call where I explained I'm looking for a male Akita as a working dog, a guard dog I intended to train. He said Akitas don't need training as guard dogs. (All guard dogs need training, even breeds as instinctive at it as an Akita, unless I'm willing to risk his and my family's safety out of laziness and stupidity.) I kinda pushed back a little bit on it , trying to elaborate on what I meant, and he interrupted me to condescendingly tell me he had 30 years of experience as a breeder and I had only raised a single Akita. I was trying to then respond, probably noticeably irritated, that I also have over a decade in the behavioral sciences and neuroscience fields (child psychology applies very closely to dog training) and that I grew up on a farm and had raised and trained many large dogs before. He interrupted me a third time to discontinue our business.

I've been calling around to numerous breeders and have spoken to two other very sweet breeders in the Pacific Northwest before this experience. I check his website and he has a very long application, requesting a .pdf be printed out and sent to him through the postal service (he has a Google email address on his website, mind you, so this MFer has filing cabinets with apps in them for sure), including requiring photos of my house, yard, and fence, and asking about him surprise visiting applicants homes. (We both live in farm country with smaller, rural towns, so you're talking 3 hours of driving in most cases.) I am extremely security contentious, so yikes. My how the world of dog breeding has changed. After Googling a bit I realize that for all intents and purposes I'm gonna need to accept this will be a commitment to a long-term relationship with the breeder too. Ugh.

So, I've been Googling trying to learn more about people's experiences with breeders, and now I'm here. This is gonna end up being a Best In Show kinda experience, isn't it?