# Where's my Dog's Navel?!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-dogs-navel/93243>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 14, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-dogs-navel/93243 "2001-11-14T02:14:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![heptapod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@heptapod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heptapod)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-dogs-navel/93243/1 "2001-11-14T02:14:25Z")

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My veterinarian says my dog has a navel but I’ve searched his belly and I just can’t find his belly button anywhere! Even after he had surgery that required the vet to shave him in that area there wasn’t any navel. Are dog belly buttons completely different from hairless ape belly buttons?

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**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-dogs-navel/93243/2 "2001-11-14T02:27:19Z")

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There’s usualy a swirl of hair around a dog’s navel. It may only show up as a lightening of the skin. It will be even with the rest of the skin, not an inny or an outy.

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-dogs-navel/93243/3 "2001-11-14T04:17:26Z")

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> **[Caesarian C-Section](https://lbah.com/canine/c-section/)**
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> This page has two C-section (Caesarian) surgeries on it. This first one you come to when you scroll down was performed recently, the one further down the page was performed by Dr. Palazzolo 20 years ago. It was posted on this web site in 1999.
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Look just past half way the page. You will see a nurse tying off a canine umbilical cord on a newborn puppy. Make necessary adjustments for your dog’s topology and look approximately there.

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**Author:** ![fungi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@fungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fungi)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-dogs-navel/93243/4 "2001-11-14T07:36:55Z")

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My dog has a particularly sparse cover of hair on her tummy, and if you were to draw an imaginary line between front left and rear right, and front right and rear left legs, then the intersection would be close to it. Or perhaps about an inch back towards the tail end.

It doesn’t look like a human one - not an innie or an outie, but more like a bit of disturbed / scarred skin.

If it is really important to you, I can take a picture of it 😉

Hmmmm, a money making opportunity: [dognavels.com](http://dognavels.com) 🙂

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