I used to believe that dogs were the daddies in the family, cats were the mommies and cute little mice were the babies and youngsters. Used to imagine doggy dads with pipes reading the newspapers, mummy cats in aprons wielding a spatula and mice sitting around playing monopoly. :P
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- I used to believe cats ate dogs and mice ate elephants— lucien
- 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
- i use to believe that when you died you were reborn, but you had different mommies and daddies— kimberly
- I used to believe that dogs ate cats.— Tom