A childhood belief about imaginary friends

when i was little i used to beleive that i was some kind of animal or another. for the longest time i was a half-sheepdog half-dalmation, with rainbow heart shaped spots and my name was heartlove-rose. i was convinced that this was my true form and that i turned into a girl whenever anyone was around. before that i beleived that i was a blue and yellow macaw parrot named cricket, after i had seen such a bird on vacation. i had a huge basket that was my nest and i would sit in it with my stuffed parrot.
i also had an imanginary siamese cat named thermos who liked to catch hummingbirds but didn't hurt them, and a puppy named Otto who was my best friend when i was the sheepdog-dalmation thing. otto and i had all kinds of lovely adventures like the time we busted a guy for making a u-turn at the no u-turn intersection. My parents also tell me that i had an imaginary friend named lambert, but i don't remember much about him. whenever i hear the name i do think of a boy with a sheep's head, with like a white curly fro-thing for hair.
i was a pretty imaginative kid.