Wow, thanks for posting this. I just ordered one for myself!
We already have one of the bigger dogs. Here's how we used him last year ("a boy and his dog"):
Pretty sure that's Sasha from Grandin Road:If you don't mind me asking, where did you get the larger skelly dog on the left? LOVE him!
Use one of the half-skeletons (waist up) - less to buryI'm also trying to figure out how to have skeleton dogs unearthing a human skeleton from the dirt.