Move over, chocolate lab: The labradoodle has arrived. Why walk a corgi when you can have a dorgi? Or coddle a poodle when you can cuddle a yorkipoo? Mutts, by any other name, are all the rage.

What do you get when you cross a standard poodle with a labrador retriever? It’s a labradoodle, and while they are as cute as their name, some say ‘doodles and their ilk are the bane of the dog world.

In 1989, a man named Wally Conron crossed a Labrador with a poodle. The resulting dogs were reportedly the world’s first-ever labradoodles, and the start of a modern-day designer dog craze. They are ...