Why don t dogs have belly buttons?

A dog's herniated belly button. Indeed, the only time you'd have reason to notice a dog's belly button is if something goes wrong with a puppy's development. An umbilical hernia in dogs is a medical condition in which the small wound created when the umbilical cord is severed does not close over or heal properly. read more

I have answered this one before but I don't mind repeating myself. The mother dog chews off the umbilical cord and eats it. Only a small scar is left on the pups' stomach. read more

Dogs are physiologically different from humans in many ways; the difference most relevant to whether dogs have belly buttons is the positioning of the nipples and navel. In humans, the nipples are toward the top of the torso and the navel toward the bottom. read more

Some dogs have a visible scar; other dogs have nothing visible. Some internet sources say dogs can have an “outie” belly button, but this means they have an umbilical hernia. When the umbilicus heals after birth, the hole is filled with muscle tissue to close it. read more