if you feed the dog chocolate, it will give it worms
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.— A Wild Cowgirl
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- I used to believe that eating Coco Puffs with Chocolate milk would give me diabetes.— Julie
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon - I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio