I always thought dogs never slept since we did not have a pet dog and every dog I encountered at a friends was always awake. When we finally got a dog when I was 13 and saw it napping for the first time I was distraught and thought he had died. My mom then explained he was asleep.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when you died, you would be awake trapped in your coffin rotting for all eternity!— Trapped in the Coffin
- 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
- My sister and I thought cats and dogs were the same animal, the dogs were male and the cats were female.— Paul
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri