As a kid growing up my grandfather used to always tell us that the reason for the winding trails going up the slopes of nearby hills (from cattle grazing) was because of these extremely rare animals called Gyrasticuttus's (I can't spell it). Supposedly this animal was born with the legs on one side of its body shorter than the other... which was handy for eating grass as it wound up the hill. Unfortunately once at the top it couldn't get down because of the leg imbalance so it had to tumble end over end in order to get down. I believed him whole-heartedly for years and my sister and I (who usually fought like dogs) would spend entire car rides in silence trying to catch a glimps of the rare beast out our window... which as it turned out, worked very well for my grandparents.

Ez

When I was in kindergarten, my best friend told me all about dinosaurs. Well, I couldn't sleep that night. I thought dinosaurs were still alive and would stomp on my house!

Robbie

i used to believe that jackalopes were very real.

ryan

I used to believe that sheep on hills had two legs shorter then the other,i have believed this all my lfie and only found out last year it was all a lie! (I am 15 now!!)

Amye

I used to believe that if I was nice to animals, they would be able to smell that I was not a predator, and wouldn't hurt me. I used to save spiders and other bugs by catching them and taking them outside. I never killed bugs.
I might have been right. I have yet to be bit/stung/or otherwise injured from an animal, well except a horse stepped on my toe once, but that was an accident.

rach

I used to believe that a vitamin was a small animal
only recently I have found out that it is not true... :)

Sylwia

I used to think rats and bats were the same thing.

Sometimes when a mama rat had babies there would be a winged one and it'd fly away.

So when I got a little older I got a rat who was gonna give birth thinking she'd have a winged baby and it'd make the best pet ever.

Feral

I used to think all mice were white and those whom had other coloring were just painted

Feral

When I was ten, I visited woman's house and she gave me a chicken's egg from her chicken house for me to keep. I didn't know that eggs had to be fertilized by the rooster in order to hatch. I was excited because I thought that a chickie would hatch from it and I would have my own pet chicken! I cradled it on the car ride home and when I got home, I wrapped it in a blanket, put it in a basket and put it under my homework light to incubate it. Unfortunately, my parents told me that the egg WASN'T going to hatch and that if I left the egg there any longer, it would stink. I really had my hopes up :(.

Happy person

I used to believe that from seeing drawings or cartoons of goats eating cans, that they really could eat them.

canned kid

When i was younger i used to believe that there were 2 types of chicken - the ones that run about the farmyard and the one i used to eat!! The sad thing was i used to believe this until i was about 6!!

goldie8907

Because I knew clothes made of wool sometimes shrank in the wash, I used to assume that sheep shrank when it rained.

Marie

I used to think that whenever you barked and were trying to say something, you had to think it out as you were barking...like loud telepathy.

Ookami de Kokoro

I see some people thought cats were female and dogs were male, but I thought cows were female and horses were male.

Janey

When I was little (5) my brothers friend (15) told me that warts were baby frogs and everytime I would see his friend I would ask him if they have hatched yet because I wanted one.

Alice

I thought swans were mystical creatures. I thought that they were like unicorns. I had never seen one until a couple of years ago, when I was 12. God, was I stupid

Meg

i used to belive that mushrooms grew in underground caverns, and little pigs wearing capes were the only creatures that could harvest mushrooms!!!

very creative girl