The children in my husbands family were fascinated by dogs since they had none while growing up, so his parents told them that if they watched a dog while he was "doing his business" they would get pink eye! To this day, my husband still gets nervous if he sees our dogs going to the bathroom.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- I used to think the line in Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall was "No dogs allowed in the classroom."— Gretchen
- i thought hot dogs were made from real dogs and sum tasted good sum didnt.— Wayne
- Thanks to the movie "Annie", I thought hot dogs were made from real dogs. — Katie
- I used to believe "mixed breeds" of dogs were made by two dogs being put in a blender— Andie
- 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.