My mom told me whiskers helped cats keep their balance when I asked what they were for. Due to this, I thought if I ever cut my cat's whiskers off or even accidentally plucked one out, they would go around bumping into stuff and be mad at me forever.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- If you cut or pluck a cats whiskers they could get sick or die.— Paul Adam Trepanier
- "Care less whispers"- I used to belive he siad "Cat less whiskers"— Puts the B in Wicth
- My sister and I thought cats and dogs were the same animal, the dogs were male and the cats were female.— Paul
- I alwaysused to think white cats were girls, and black cats were male ...— Smiley Face
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- My Grandpa told me if I picked my nose I could accidentally pull out my eye. — Jan St. Louis