Ouroboros Spine Give a Dog a Bone

Her failure would have caused her to become more aggressive in an attempt to succeed in removing him from her, his weight unwelcome and uncomfortable... but Kroc saved the day without quite meaning to. She felt the weight of Iqniq fall onto one side, and in this fortunate shift, she shimmied again to aid in his descent. It was this that kept her clean from Iqniq's scruff-grab, and she heard the clatter as he moved downward. She had him to thank, that Kroc had not caught her...

And she snorted as the two moved down in their fall, but with them... with them her bone, her veritable scepter. Tonravik was up in an instant and bolting toward it, fetch. It tumbled away from Iqniq and away from Kroc, and she swept it into her jaws as though she'd caught a potential home run. The large bone was quite long, a femur (or perhaps a tibia) and at the moment, was her pride and joy. She hunkered over it protectively, continuing now to drag her teeth against it and chew.