A widow, Claire, was looking to move away from the city, and looked for a small town to live her final years in.
She drove a few hours out into the countryside to find a good place to move into. Eventually she came by Barkstown, and this peculiar name piqued her curiosity.
She drove in and was amazed by the amount of dogs there were in this town, but she was getting hungry from not eating all day.
r>Claire stopped at the local diner to have her lunch. There, she met a local country girl named Serena. They chatted and quickly became acquainted, enough for Serena to nickname old lady Claire as Ma, and Serena offered Claire to tour her around town. After finishing and paying for her meal, Claire got in Serena's pickup truck and they had a drive around town.
"This town," Serena explained, "has a very high population of dogs. Not just any dogs, though. These here doggies are special, Ma. They have no home, but they're very polite, well-behaved, and they even work within the town."
"How so?" Claire enquired. "You see," Serena continued, "the townsfolk collaborate with the dogs, Ma! They have a home for all dogs that they run themselves, the humans provide them with food and water, and in exchange the dogs help in all kinds of tasks."
"For example, see that over there? That's Joe the shepherd's place, he uses his dogs to herd his sheep, Ma. Simple enough, right? Now get this, see that locale over yonder? That's Andrew Fiorno's barbershop, the dogs are in charge of cleaning up the floors, and they do a great job at it."
"Really?" Claire was amazed. "What else do they do?"
"I'm glad you asked! Why, in the diner we just left, Nancy's, the dogs watch the food that's cooking and bark when it's exactly ready, some even turn appliances off themselves! They're very hygienic, so don't worry about any fleas, Ma. And that park over there, Roosevelt Park, is where dogs with days off go to play with children. They also water the plants themselves when it hasn't rained for a few days, they know how to use a hose." Serena kept explaining. "Here, let's get off and see it."
They walked around the park and Serena told Claire about more places where dogs help. "In the Kakyoin hardware store, the dogs are experts at picking out inventory. The owner writes a number on a paper, and the dogs recognize it and search for the corresponding item in the back, Ma."
Serena continues, "And who could forget the Oaks family? There's this very rare plant native to Barkstown that only grows in this place. It's used for rare medicine, and since it was discovered by Dr. Frank Carr, the plant is known as carr. Anyway, Robert and Julia Oaks run the biggest carr farm in the world. At R/J Oaks, those dogs spend all their time farming carr, Ma!"
As they walk, Claire smells something strange. She turns around to find a pillar covered in poop. "Eww, what the hell is that?!"
Serena calms her down. "Well, Ma, these dogs don't have a human to pick up their droppings, but they're so cooperative that the town has created spots for them to do their business and be cleaned up daily, marked by rods on the ground." "AND?" asked Claire.
"This... Is a shitpost."