i used to think that farmers kept animals because they were annimal lovers.......... UNTILL I WAS 16

jeni hall

I used to think that the tags on cows ears were actually earings.

Kelly

Until I was about 13 I thought chipmunks were baby squirrels.

Gina

My dad used to tell us all kinds of silly little fibs, which my sisters and I believed for a very long time. Here is one of my favourites.
He told us that female elephants were called Elephants and males were called Ollyphants.

Skye

When I was younger, I had a fascination with all things farm, particularly chickens. I pestered a family member for one of her chickens, but she wouldn't give me a live one (much to Mom and Dad's relief). Instead, she gave me an egg and told me that if I took really good care of it, it would hatch. Well, I set it up on my bedside table, in a nice padded box and waited. Even after a few weeks had passed, I was still waiting for *MY* chicken to appear. The egg disappeared a few days later (My mom said she threw it out eventually.) If only I had known about the heat needed aspect of hatching eggs!!! I had really wanted a pet chicken. At least the egg never broke!

Silly bird

My mom used to tell us there was a mouse living in her housecoat pocket. I believed her.

M

My friend was told when she was a child (and still believes this) that butterflies are called 'butterflies' because they were originally called 'flutterbies' (because, of course, they flutter by) and that people got confused somewhere along the way.

Anon

When I was a kid I had never seen any exotic animals until I went to the zoo, then I could see all the animals I saw in cartoons. When I saw the zebra I got very excited and said, "Wow a Zebra! A Zebra!" about 100 times. My big brother said, "That's not a zebra, that's a horse in striped pajamas." Dejected, I sat down and said, "Oh. I thought it was a zebra." My brother got yelled at by Mom for that one, and for many years I was never was sure when a zabra was really a zebra.

Anon

i used to believe that all monkeys were the same kind of animal as gorillas. i asked my mom once why orangutans were orange not black, and she told me they were different from gorillas and i thought she meant that WE were the same kind of animal as orangutans (because we had just gone on vacation and i got such a huge tan i looked orange) and in school the next day i tld my teacher that i was an orangutan because even my butt was orange, (i had a wedgie at the beach)-and except it wasn't hairy like orangutans, & my teacher frowned and all the kids laughed, mostly the stupid boys, and i had extra work to do.

orangutanqueen

I beleived that crabs that escape from man go down the sewer and become insane creatures

Pradeep

I used to think jelly came from jellyfish's tenticles

Rachey b

I always believed there were boy cows and girl cows and boy bulls and girl bulls

karen

I was told by my mother, when I was a kid, that we'd turn into a cow if we lay down immediately after supper.... I tried it a couple of times, and guess what? I'm still a human!

Swan