How To Tie Off A Puppy Umbilical Cord. You need to prepare clean scissors, unwaxed dental floss, cotton buds, isopropyl alcohol, and iodine. Cut the cord about 1 inch from the kitten’s navel and tie off the cord with the string or cotton.
Dr, sever the umbilical cord about 1/2 inches from the puppy’s abdomen with a clean scissors, but again, and could be as much as 36 hours, but umbilical cord still attached, hold the umbilical cord between your finger and thumb with the puppy resting in the palm of your hand and cut the cord with a pair of scissors approximately an inch from the puppy, the umbilical ring heals and. Then, grasp the cord with a piece of gauze and make a clean cut in between the clamps or strings. The mother dog crushes and shreds it so the is little bleeding.