User blog comment:ZoshiX/Dealing with the Pet Pages/@comment-3126873-20160723161209

Spitballing a bit here, but I think something akin to Pet City might be good for pet activity. Rather than having pets actually "do" anything, they can apply to work at any functioning center (i.e. have their name/picture listed on the payroll and do absolutely nothing until they are picked up/retired from the job) and claim for their owner some sort of prize for working, like an item that can alter appearance or some such. Pets that are working can't participate in other stuff, but since we have such a grandose amount I don't see that being a problem. Unlike the commercial failure that is/was Drowsy Stumps, payout will not be updated each day and will only become known after a pet is picked up, avoiding the whole deal of "hoo boy let's increase the cash amount by seven per day to get some minor edit activity in". Also, we're not using any form of currency, but paying out in the form of pet-related accessories, which may work better than our other attempt at capitalism.

Basically, in addition to cutting down on the centers we don't need, we give more to the existing ones so that people can pretend they're doing things here.