My best bet is that it's a reverse shinto shrine where they worship humans. Heh, just imagining a human god bestowing a blessing onto the dogs
Also the phone from the previous chapter had 母 which meant mother, but well that was translated in this chapter so it's not like it makes much of a difference
@ZdrytchX Oh, I like it! There'd be these big stylized stone statues of human shrine guardians rearing up . . . alternatively, stories of the fiendish 8-tailed human yokai (they start from zero, so).
Nonsense, what do you think the tailbone is? It's a tiny, useless tail. The appendix of tails, all it can really do is hurt you if you break it falling on your ass.