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That is how he ended up with what is now a pack of 16 strong, black and grey wolf-dog hybrids he calls his &#8220;babies.&#8221; The wolf-dogs that live in his backyard enclosure have never harmed anyone, Bongard said, nor have any neighbours complained since he brought the animals to his rural property in Wahnapitae, Ont., about 50 kilometres north of Sudbury, four years ago. 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