A friend emailed me with a picture from her trip to Cuba.

My friend, the photographer, said the guy who owned the dog looked at her “funny” when she took this picture. She took the picture because she thought this boy was such a strong, healthy, good looking boy.
Immediately I wondered if he knows how lucky he is to not live in Ontario and own this shape of dog. Had he been standing in public with his dog in our dear province of Ontario, which is in Canada (land of the free?), he would have had to muzzled, neutered and been certain the dog was born after Nov 29th, 2005. The consequence for not complying with these stipulations could result in his dog being seized, put to death, sent for research or shipped out of Ontario.
It stuck me as ironic that it is likely less risky (as a dog owner) to live in a dictatorship than in Ontariostan! I wonder if Castro would be amused?