animals: cats and dogs

I had a pet cat named Pippy, we got him when I was a kitten, and I remember I used to think that he would grow up into an adult, and the two of us would get married. I imagined him all dressed up and standing on two feet like Puss 'n Boots. I guess I thought his walking on four legs was similar to babies crawling.

My older brother told me when I was a child that if a dog sleeps with his legs straight that he was dead (stiff I suppose). Even though now I'm an adult and know how preposterous that is, I still gasp with fear if I see a dog napping straight-legged.

if you feed the dog chocolate, it will give it worms

I knew I could talk with the cats and dogs and that they would talk with me. One day I had walked home from school and was waiting on the porch with a puppy dog for my Mom to get home to let me in when my sister got home, she said " where did this dog come from?" And I replied that Duke followed me home, and my sister said how do you know his name -- and I said he told me!

I was once convinced that I had seen a nature program on TV that stated that cats were psychic. I couldn't understand why, when I brought this up in class one day, the teacher didn't already know this...Regardless, I would think thoughts to my cat all the time to get her to come play with me and to tell her how much I loved her. Still do, a little bit...

Yep. You guessed it. As with almost everyone here, I used to believe that dogs were boys and cats were girls.

Bizarrely, I think that Tom and Jerry episodes with the bulldog in had something to do with it...

I expect there's a Clinical Psychologist out there right now just dreaming of the breakthrough reading this site could offer :-D

When I was a little girl I used to believe that a mamma dog got her babies by going out into the woods,sniffing the trees to find the right one, then digging a hole to find her babies!

When I was little my cousins and I believed my grandmother when she said not to watch the dog poop because you could get pink eye!

I once believed, for about a day after hearing the name, that heins 57 meant the dog was 57 different breeds of dog

When I was young I had a cat called Fluffy.. after a few good years she disappeared, my parents told me she'd run away with a boyfriend...

Only when I was 16 did I decide to confront them about it. I said "Mum, dad, Fluffy didn't runn away. She died didn't she?"

They told me she'd actually been sold to someone else. And I thought (and STILL think) I would have prefered if my kitty had died

One day I hid dog treats around the back yard and I wanted my dog to go and find them. Well, he just wagged his tail and barked at me but he wouldn't go look for the treats. I tried to be helpful so I wrote "bark bark" on the ground hoping my dog would read it and know to look for the treats.

When I was about 6, we learned that I had asthma because of my allergic reaction our dog, "Cinammon." As we had to get rid of Cinammon, my parents told me they were sending her "to a farm in New Hampshire." I believed this straight through to my sophomore year in college (13 years later) . . . of course, she was put to sleep . . .

I was a rather paranoid kid and remember convincing myself when I was quite young that my cat, Flower, was a robot and was in fact spying on me. I even tried (very gently) to pull her head off to prove it!

this one isn't for me but my friend emma! She believed that Cats are born with their eyes shut because the bodies are still processing the eyes, and also that cats are born without genitals! Don't ask me how she worked that one out!! : )

When i was little i was so scared of cats, because i taught the turned in to tigers if you saw them.

when I was little, I used to belive that if I didn't go for lots of walks with my dog, she would eventually explode.Which made it so I walked my dog everyother hour.