This bit from the Counterparty wiki (when translated to doge) should suffice as an effective workaround if needed:

"To pay dividends in BTC, you should, for now, just use a regular Bitcoin client, coupled with the output from 'counterpartyd asset ASSET', which will list all of the shareholders (and their holdings) of ASSET."

So you could pay dividends in DOGE using the regular Dogecoin Core client, coupled with output of 'dogepartyd asset ASSET' to send to all asset holders in proportion.

But I really hope the dividend function is meant to operate for all users; it does on every other platform.

Any dev care to straighten this out?