My mother, being from the old school, once told my siblings and I that there were "trick dogs," in an attempt to explain what the neighbor dogs were "doing" one day. They were, of course, doing IT. We were all on the bus one day and pulled up at a stop light. My brother and I spotted two dogs going at it, and very enthusiastically said, "look mom! Trick dogs!." She told me several years later that everyone on the bus had to take a look for themselves, and that she felt like crawling under the seat.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- i thought hot dogs were made from real dogs and sum tasted good sum didnt.— Wayne
- Thanks to the movie "Annie", I thought hot dogs were made from real dogs. — Katie
- I used to believe "mixed breeds" of dogs were made by two dogs being put in a blender— Andie
- My sister and I thought cats and dogs were the same animal, the dogs were male and the cats were female.— Paul
- I used to believe all dogs were male and all cats were female. I still call dogs "boy" and cats "girl." — Kelly F.
- I use to believe that cats and dogs were the same species; cats were girls and dogs were boys.— poopcrystals