Ah that s particular, what happened with this animal ? Don't blame yourself for anything, you were a child. Can you tell me the version you have in your mind, and then the version of your parents. I m not a pro but i have this theory : Your subconscious considers emotions you lived (or traumas) like the truth. It doesn't care about what happened for real. Only the version you have in mind is real. Did you try to work on it with hypnose or anything ? /// It s not a funny subject here, so read below only if you want to relax /// It remembers me something. My sister and me were like 8 years old. We were explorating the field on holiday. Then i saw it, a Bear running to us. He chose to chase me, so i ran for my life. For miles... And miles ... I felt he was much closer, just behind me. So i kept running like never, out of breath, without any oxygen in my muscles, so scared to be eaten by these long teeths. The bear had a problem to one of his paws, so the torture lasted like an eternity. When finally i fell to the ground, the beast jumped on me, i was on panic, full of terror. And the beast started to... Lick my face... With his big tongue, all over my face. And slowly i realised. It wasn't a bear, just a kind large dog looking a lot like a bear. 😅 I sweared it was a bear, but then someone told me there is no bear in France. I was a stutterer already, but i think i could have start to stutter too after this.