When I was around four to six years old, I thought that if you were petting an animal and didn't wash your hands before you ate something, you'd turn into that animal. I was always too scared to test this though, because I wasn't quite sure I wanted to spend the rest of my life as a cat or a dog...
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - when i played pretend i always wanted to be the animal. i didnt want to b a person cause their boring lol— Melissa
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil
- I thought for a long time that beaver and badger are the same animal— Ted Snow
- As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane
- I used to belive that if you didn't keep a promise you would have bad luck for the rest of your life— Rebbecca