Designer Dogs

Seeing as you my, opponent, are supposed to have the BOP in this case, you must prove how designer dogs don't give us correct results. You have not offered any sources telling us how it is a gamble. Why are designer dogs so popular in the U.S., an other country if these mixed dog breed have such "negative" results? Really your arguments you make on this are un-founded. A1: " Consider the number of homeless pets being euthanized daily or otherwise aimlessly wandering the streets? Does that make you want to keep creating more and more "breeds" of dogs?" This is a horrible reason against designer dogs. No matter what there will be an equal number of dogs that are homeless on the the streets. Simply breeding a new species doesn't speed the development of pups, it simply just changes the species of dogs available. Also your resolution isn't about whether these crossbred dogs are immoral, just that pure-breds are "better". So this arguments can be considered irrelevant. "Also, there are a lot more than 2 species of dog." Yes. That was what we call an 'example'. Designer dogs offer us alot more options of dogs to look at. Also most of these dogs are cross-bred before we order them. So basically we could go to pet store and look for the dog that already has these traits we are looking for. My opponent cannot argue results because we choose the results that have already been made by hand picking out our designer pets. A2: " You claim that Scotland didn't have the knowledge of DNA testing or genetics. So then my question to you is how did the Golden Retriever ever come about?" Ha, first of all your claiming golden retrievers are purebreds. Given your logic, all pure-breds are cross breeds. Given your logic we can't like purebreds either because at one point in time they were a different species. Technically, given your logic, all pure-bred dogs are cross-bed dogs as well, thus you contradict yourself. But even giving you the benefit of the doubt, the argument still falls. Obviously the technology of DNA testing has increased significantly over the years. From 1850 to now, we've learned so much more about DNA testing, that we know how to mix and match any parent to produce the proper offspring. http://www.huxford.com... "If we had the need for a dog to pull carts, or herd our sheep, I'm sure there would be someone willing to take the years of time it takes to create a dog to do this and breed true. But there is no need anymore." However the lack of need is subjective and relative. Some people still feel the need or want for these traits in dogs which is why we even have designer dogs in the first place! The simple fact is we do have the technology. We do have the resources, and whether we need to or not is irrelevant, if there is out there who want a designer dog with certain traits and is willing to pay a good amount for them. Arguments against this, are unfounded. Please drop the Charley Sheen comment, I understand you have a hard time computing jokes. All I was saying is that cross-bred dogs offer us more possibilities, and thus win in ever aspect of this debate. A3: "This doesn't neccesarily mean that every second generation dog will be deathly ill, but that that the recessive genes we were able to hide in the first generation will be present in the second." So what? Please drop the arguments on how recessive traits deter cross-bred dogs in second generation. As I have shown, recessive traits do what? Give the dogs back their pure-bred traits? Again, so what? This arguments holds no weight because, really it doesn't show cross-breeding producing any negative results, unless my opponent considers the traits pure-breds hold negative. Even when this situation occurs, we really solve it simply by creating the new generation of cross-bred pets. Resolution resolved! Pure-breds aren't better than cross-breds. And really, what about the cross-breds are even in-superior to pure breds? My opponent hasn't really made any arguments saying anything about this. Relative to pure-breds, there really isn't any negative factors to compare the two with. So how can pure-breds be superior? Really there is no logical reason for us not to cross-breed pets, given this, I urge the voters to vote pro. Thankyou.