When I was a kid, 7 or so, the neighbor boys told me that when a dog laid upside down it would suffocate. Consequently I awoke a dog and never let it lie on its back.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that cows laid beef, like the way chickens laid eggsAnon
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon
- My parents told me that scotch eggs were laid by a Haggis. — sarah c
- when I was a kid my neighbor told me if I picked my nose I would poke out my eye. I believe him. — Jane
- When I was 3, my neighbor told me she was a witch and she said Godzilla was going to step on my house.— Grayson
- My neighbor told me that the insides of acorns tasted like chocolate. They don't. They're really bitter.— Dial Zero