I want the audience to be sure that what was crunching was torn apart deer bones, not the crunch of the joint capsules of old wolf, whenever it bent its knees to take another bite. What word or phrase to use for predator gnawing bones of its prey. Referring to the bone breaking sounds.

The bones were ____ when the wolf had its feast.

I could hear the sound of ____ bones behind the tree.

Does the word crunch unambiguously paint the poor deer? Or may it evoke a parallel image of an old wolf?

I want the audience to be sure what was crunching was torn apart deer bones, not the crunch of the joint capsules of the old wolf, whenever it bent its knees to take another bite. What word or phrase to use for predator gnawing bones of its prey. Referring to the bone breaking sounds?

I could hear the sound of ____ bones behind the tree. The wolf had its feast.

Edit. Does the word crunch unambiguously paint the poor deer? Or may it evoke a parallel image of an old wolf?

I want the audience to be sure that what was crunching was torn apart deer bones, not the crunch of the joint capsules of old wolf, whenever it bent its knees to take another bite. What word or phrase to use for predator gnawing a bone of its prey. Referring to the bone breaking sounds.

The bones were ____ when the wolf had its feast.

I could hear the sound of ____ bones behind the tree.

Would you please comment the relevance of the words that came to my mind: ground, rattle, clack, crush, crunch or would you please suggest different words?

I want the audience to be sure that what was crunching was torn apart deer bones, not the crunch of the joint capsules of old wolf, whenever it bent its knees to take another bite. What word or phrase to use for predator gnawing bones of its prey. Referring to the bone breaking sounds.

The bones were ____ when the wolf had its feast.

I could hear the sound of ____ bones behind the tree.

Does the word crunch unambiguously paint the poor deer? Or may it evoke a parallel image of an old wolf?

What word or phrase to use for dog gnawing a bone. Referring to the bone breaking sounds.

The bones were ____ when the wolf had its feast.

My current thoughts: rattling, clacking, crushing, crunching

Edit. You should get it the first time that it were the bones of a poor deer being broken, not crunching of old wolf joints.

I want the audience to be sure that what was crunching was torn apart deer bones, not the crunch of the joint capsules of old wolf, whenever it bent its knees to take another bite. What word or phrase to use for predator gnawing a bone of its prey. Referring to the bone breaking sounds.

The bones were ____ when the wolf had its feast.

I could hear the sound of ____ bones behind the tree.

Would you please comment the relevance of the words that came to my mind: ground, rattle, clack, crush, crunch or would you please suggest different words?