When my mate was a baby his parents got a cat. Unfortunately the cat got hit by a car and had to have a leg removed, so up until he was 7yrs old he thought all cats had 3 legs he didnt no any different.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- My Dad convinced me that Manx cats had no tail - and only three legs.— Jim
- i thought that our cats were secret spies for my parents and i would never do anything bad around them. Anon
- 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.
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly