Cats and dogs are the same species.
I certainly believed, and not without a lot of independent reasoning. To me, cats were unmistakedly feminine and dogs very macho. They also vary wildly in size, with a shitsu dog looking much closer to a kitten that a great dane. So I believed that dogs and cats were the males and females respectively of the same species. I can't tell you how disappointed I was to find out I was wrong.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs
you weren't the only one
215 of you believed this
- I used to believe that cats were all female and dogs were all male.— Rachel
- that cats were only girls and dogs were only boys. I definetly didn't get the whole reproducing thing yet.— Jamie
- i used to believe a dog was the male version of a cat.Anon
- I believed that all cats were female and all dogs were male. — Biologically confused
- i thought cats were girls and dogs were boys. Anon
- i used to believe that all cats were female and dogs were male!Anon