Do dogs and cats have bellybuttons? I've never seen one.?

Answer 1

They sure do! Just like you cats, dogs, horses, and giraffes are all placental mammals. Placental mammals develop inside their mother. Nutrients, oxygen, and wastes are exchanged between the developing embryo and the mother through a placenta. An umbilical cord connects the embryo to the placenta. The navel or belly button is where the umbilical cord was attatched to the young placental mammal. So even though you may not notice it unless you look very carefully, dogs and cats do, indeed, have belly buttons.

Answer 2

dogs and cats do have belly buttons. This is a physical remnant of life in the womb because it physically marks the spot where the umbilical cord connected the animal to its mother. In the case of animals which carry more than one fetus at a time, each fetus must have an umbilical cord in order to survive. However, these multiple umbilical cords do not usually get tangled. The main reason is that each embryo is contained in the mother’s uterus as a single unit. There are a series of membranes that surround the developing embryo and the umbilical cord, thus isolating them from neighboring structures.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/dec99/944801013.Dv.r.html
Just like you cats, dogs, horses, and giraffes are all placental mammals. Placental mammals develop inside their mother. Nutrients, oxygen, and wastes are exchanged between the developing embryo and the mother through a placenta. An umbilical cord connects the embryo to the placenta. The navel or belly button is where the umbilical cord was attatched to the young placental mammal. So even though you may not notice it unless you look very carefully, dogs and cats do, indeed, have belly buttons.
http://www.yesmag.bc.ca/Questions/bellybutton.html
hope this helps :)

Answer 3

They sure do! Just like you cats, dogs, horses, and giraffes are all placental mammals. Placental mammals develop inside their mother. Nutrients, oxygen, and wastes are exchanged between the developing embryo and the mother through a placenta. An umbilical cord connects the embryo to the placenta. The navel or belly button is where the umbilical cord was attatched to the young placental mammal. So even though you may not notice it unless you look very carefully, dogs and cats do, indeed, have belly buttons.

Answer 4

Go to Yahoo homepage, Select Images in the search bar, then look for feline umbilical cord - it should throw up some photos of "Leo" - a tiny kitty found abandoned when only a couple of hours old... with umbilical cord still attached!
Evidently, cats do have belly buttons, as do dogs!

Answer 5

YES! dogs and cats have bellybuttons just like you and I and every other living creature in today's world that was attached to their mothers by an umbilical when they (we) were born.

Answer 6

fusillica is wrong, of course they have belly buttons,how do you think they survive in the womb? They are just not prevalent on most animals as they are in humans, because there is not a not a knot tied in it, the mother just eats the placenta and then the cord dries up and falls off. It happens quicker than in human babies too. My puppy has a big belly button though, first tiem i ever saw a dog with a big one.

Answer 7

Yes dogs do, I had to help my dog deliver 8 pups and they was covered in this transparent skin and a small umbilical cord also, till the mother took it away.

Answer 8

Dogs do, of course. Cats, being the" spawn of Satan", may, or may not. I, for one, have never approached close enough to a cat to see. I do not think I ever will. Dogs rule!! Cats belong in the barn!!

Answer 9

yeah but every one is a "sticky out" not an "inny" like humans, some of your answerers are clearly insane, certainly the first one. they have umbilical cords, the cat/dog chews it off straight after birth. it's not hidden under fur, it's there if you look.

Answer 10

I beleive they do, i watched my cat give birth, and the kittens had the umbilical cord, the cat chews through it. It must be attached somewhere. Good question actually.