A day of scratches

These are the new 'flowers' at work. A bit prickly. Rio went to the vets this morning... Got the muzzle on him in the car once at the vets, He kept getting his claws caught up trying to get it off. Got him into the vets and onto the table and as predicted he flipped out, worse than I have ever seen before. It took 3 of us to hold him still for his booster. He growled and screamed and cried but it had to be done. Next the vet looked at his dew claws, rio turned into a croc and attempted a death roll. I wanted to comfort the poor lad but we had to just get in with it quick. He had pulled and broken both dew claws in the frenzy so that saved the vet a job. In all the panic he had emptied his anal scent glands all over me. Never smelt anything so vile. Took him off the table and removed the muzzle and he stood there wagging his tail! I think the muzzle makes him worse but I can't risk him biting as he is unpredictable at the vets :( he is home and fine. Had some treats and seems to have forgotten already. He let me have a stroke and hold of his paws so no psychological damage done. Hopefully that's it for another year as I am covered in scratches, and they are bleeding!