Battle Wound

This past week was Rza's last week with his cone collar on.  He had three staples left and we wanted to make sure they stayed in for as long as possible.  Since I have been putting his collar on before I leave in the morning, Rza and I have had daily battles to get it on him and it has gotten progressively worse through out the week.  He would anticipate this battle every morning and get all worked up.  On Friday (his last day of wearing it) he was especially stubborn.  The process would go like this:

1. I would grab the collar and he would run away.

2. I would tell him to get onto the couch which took 5 minutes.

3. I would lay him on his back and then straddle his neck so that his paws were underneath me.

4. I would try to get the collar on about 3 times unsuccessfully because he would wiggle his paws out from under me and claw it off his head.

5. I would FINALLY get it on.

6. Rza would be panting and I would be all flustered myself and at this point almost late for work.

This is the battle wound i received Friday...

(It isn't that much of a wound but just really long)

hopefully we won't have to battle the cone collar EVER again.