I used to believe until I was about 15 that if you had a scrape or cut or a wound, if you'd let your dog lick the wound it would be better than any medicine because my dad had told me that dog saliva is better than medicine. Besides that St. Lazarus guy from church had let dogs lick his wounds...
A childhood belief about cats and dogs
others believed things like this
- I used to believe when I was a child that when I was injured, the wound would never be repaired or cured.— solid
- When i was 5, i thought that you could lick your elbow....Anon
- I used to believe that a cow-lick meant that a cow had licked you when you were a baby.— Lindsay
- My mate used to believe that the lids of yoghurt pots were poisonous, and to this day won't ever lick one.Anon
- I believed if I let my dog lick my face and didn't wipe off the slobber, that I would turn into a dog myself.— robyn
- I used to honestly think that Smarties were medicine.Anon