The dog has to whine for a bone Illumination: i think what it means is that the Dog (stg) has given away a lot of bones to Hanson:
now, when the dog gets hungary he has to whine for a bone just to stay alive;
Hanson, meanwhile, is looking at its nice little pile of bones that don't have a lot of meat on them,
but they can always suck out some of the marrow !