People laugh in the rest of Canada, but it's really not funny. Imagine getting hit with a winter storm and not having any infrastructure to deal with snow removal nor drivers/cars prepared to drive in it. It would be awful.
We have two dogs, both small and we live in a quiet suburb where snow removal is non-existent and a lot of people don't shovel their sidewalk. Walking has been impossible. I took them down to a trail for a walk and we were sliding all over the place.
At least we shoveled parts of the yard for them and they have each other to play with and burn energy, but they're getting cabin fever badly too.
ETA - oops, I meant to quote dia's post where she was talking about her dogs. And thank you for the sympathy, cyber!