When I was a kid, I had a cat who ended up turning rabid. My parents insisted they take it to a "farm" to live happily in the open planes. I believed them until I was my mid-teens, then was devastated to learn what really happened.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy
- i believed like when i was 3 yrs. old i thought that air planes would come to your house to pick you up!— Brooke
- I believed that Jesus was flying across the sky, it was actually sunlight reflecting off planes.— Patti
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- I believed that numbers eventually just ended. That they stopped somewhere after 1000.— Jamis
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart