When I was younger I had a religion class that was about evil spirits being possesed in people's body, or maybe it was just something out of the bible. That night my cats were acting weird (as cats do quite frequently) so I asked my teacher if animals could be possesed too, he told me that it was "possible" so at that point I believed that my 2 cats were really demons and I was afriad to ever be alone in a room with them.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- As a kid I thought dogs stupid but funny and that cats were evil demons. — Gemini
- 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.
- 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