Well I don't have the original image anymore, it's on some disk or drive somewhere. Why don't you just keep the headphones. It is because you are trying to remove them, that the trimmed image looks so strange.

My dog is very fond of pictures so I don't have many good ones. If you look at the pic closely, you can see that there is someone holding him.

It's important to not trim the hairs sticking out, because that's what gives it personality.

Who knows.. Maybe if you do a good job on it, use better colors and dump the attempt to make it speak, I might just exchange it and use for a new Avatar.