My mum would always talk to our cats and ask them if they wanted food, then she would give them some and they'd eat it. I thought that when you were an adult you could actually understand animals and they would talk to you like the ones in movies.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- I thought I had X-ray vision and could talk to animals and they could understand me.— Kitty Lover
- On Christmas Eve all the animals are able to talk but only for that night!Anon
- I used to belive that all animals could talk but just didn't want to aroung people!— Mallory
- i used to think that bugs could understand and talk with us— DarkDeku
- I beliveve that i got abducted by aleiens and i got special powers and i could talk to animals— I found out
- I used to beleive when ppl didn't talk (deaf ppl) they lost their voice and could never talk again!— Tiara 10