My uncle who lived in Germany told me that he had a metalic pink cat called Ernst. I used to imagine him spraying the cat with car paint.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla
- i knew that if you ate beets your urine would turn pink and i thought if it was pink, then you could drink it.— JP
- When I was little I used to think that my uncle lived in a bus shelter.— tigga
- I thought pink lemonade came from pink lemons.Anon
- I used to think apes lived in mongolia, and the girl apes wore pink bows— Christina
- My mum told my brother that beetroot turned your wee pink. To this day he still won't eat it— Monica