In the late 1980s, a Hawaiian couple asked Australian dog breeder Wally Conron to invent them a new kind of dog to fit their special needs. The wife had vision problems, and the husband was allergic to most kinds of dogs. Conrons solution was to cross a Labrador retriever and a standard poodle. Ive created a lot of problems. As celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Barack Obama, and Tiger Woods adopted Labradoodles, puppy mills hastily breed more of the dogs, which often have severe health problems. Instead of breeding out the problems, theyre breeding them in, Conron said.