I believed that cats only lived for a very short time, usually no more then 6 months. I was astounded to find out much later in life that my friend had 2 cats & one was 10 years old and the other nearly 14! My sister and I were always bringing home stray cats & pleading with our parents to keep them. Guess our parents thought it was easier to go along with us at first & then when our initial excitement waned, dad somehow found a new home for them. I think that I believed they ran away to die.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs
others believed things like this
- My sister and I thought cats and dogs were the same animal, the dogs were male and the cats were female.— Paul
- I alwaysused to think white cats were girls, and black cats were male ...— Smiley Face
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- i thought that our cats were secret spies for my parents and i would never do anything bad around them. Anon
- My sister's friend thought cats were just small dogs when she was younger.— Richard Davies
- I used to believe all dogs were male and all cats were female. I still call dogs "boy" and cats "girl." — Kelly F.