10 Inventors Who Hated Their Own Creations

Remember that bit about playing God? And you all probably thought: well, that's fiction, there's no way – well, shut up because it happened. Enter Wally Conron, who may have been moved by the best intentions but as we all know good intentions are Hell's paving stones.

Conron was the puppy breeding manager for the Royal Guide Dog Association of Australia when he was met with a difficult request: breed a dog that would be helpful to the blind but could be kept by those with specific allergies. After a lot of hard work and spaghetti dinners or however it is that dog breeders work, the Labradoodle was born. The dogs proved unpopular and wanting to see them go to good homes, Conron started marketing them not as the hypoallergenic guide dog of the future but as the hip new wonder-dog.

The trend of custom-bred dogs and the ensuing rise in frankly evil puppy mills would be the cause for Conron's dismay – in a 2014 interview with the Independent Conron said: “instead of breeding out the problems, they're breeding them in. For every perfect one, you're going to find a lot of crazy ones. Not in my wildest dream did I imagine all of this would happen, That's a trend I started.”