Until I was about 11, I believed that my dog understood all my feelings and actions (he behaved like it too). I was sure that he was just too clever to let us know how much he really understood. Because of that, apart from many other things, he was my best friend and I shared everything with him (including juicy apricots which he didn't care for and me eating his noodles - yes from his bowl- which he didn't care for either having wolfed down the meat).
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- when I was little, I used to think that everyone was a child but someone invented adults to take care of us.— chocolate
- I used to think that Shamu was my whale and that he just lived at Sea World and they took care of him for me.Anon
- "Care less whispers"- I used to belive he siad "Cat less whiskers"— Puts the B in Wicth
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I used to believe the D in the Disney logo was a backwards G. I never understood why.— Nancy