animals

i used to think that eyeshadow came from the wings of butterflies cos it feel the same lol I was like what, maybe 5 or 6 years old? hahahaha

When I was about 3 I asked my mom where baby horses came from. She told me about "the birds and the bees." Afterwards I responded "Oh. I thought it had something to do with their feet."

When I was about 5 or 6, my sister convinced me that ants were chocolate. And I ate them. They tasted pretty good, actually.

My grandfather told me if you put salt on a birds tail it couldn't fly anymore and i could catch it, so i would go in the backyard and chase the birds around with a salt-shaker

I used to believe that crickets chirping were actually some coach just blasting his whistle over and over and over.

One day i found a rabbit and i went in and asked my parents how to catch it... they told me if i sprinkled salt on the rabbits tail it would slow down so i could catch it... i went out there for a good 45min and tried to sprinkle salt on it's tail... my parents jus stayed in the house and laughed at me.... i later came in and cried... they still tease me bout it today....

I believed that all dogs were male and cats were female. So when the dogs and cats mated (I had no clue how they did that) the offspring would be a cat if it was a girl and a dog if it were a boy. I believed the same for horses and cows.

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up until the age of 15 i used to belive that there were male cows i didnt realise that cows were female n bulls were males.

when i was younger i thought that all dogs were males and the cats were females and they got together to make baby dogs and cats

When I was about 3 we lived on a small farm with a pond. I heard this bullfrog at night and didn't know what it was, so I asked my mother. She offhandedly said "It's a bullfrog - that's a great big boy frog that lives in the pond. He's calling out because it's warm."

Although she meant "great big" in comparison to the other (female) frogs I thought she meant in comparison to HERSELF. Therefore I imagined this 7 or 8 foot frog in that bitty pond and wondered why I hadn't seen him, but was too afraid to go look.

A few years later I saw a bullfrog and realized what she meant.

My mum would always talk to our cats and ask them if they wanted food, then she would give them some and they'd eat it. I thought that when you were an adult you could actually understand animals and they would talk to you like the ones in movies.

When my cat was alone in my bedroom, I would close the door and lock it. Then I would gently approach her and say, "Okay, if you can talk, you know you can trust me. I won't tell anyone. I can keep a secret. Please, I know you can talk, so just talk to me!" Looking back on at now, I feel really stupid. I guess that's what happens when you watch movies like "The Aristocats" too much.

I used to be extrememly gullible, especially when my brother told me things. Mostly, things about death. Like when we went on a camping trip and I picked a leaf off of a tree, he said it was "poison moose leaf" (?!) and that I would die within an hour because I had touched it. Then later in that day I found some little funnels in the dirt that I assumed were made by some sort of burrowing beetle. My brother said they were made my the "poison crab ant" and that, again, if I touched it I would die.
He also told me that the caterpillar I found was a "poison death caterpillar" and that I would die before sunset. The three of these had me efficiently flipping out the whole day.
Then, suddenly, it dawned on me...

When I was a kid, I used to believe that cats were "female" and dogs were "male." That I never saw their offspring had nothing to do with it.

When I was a kid I was terrified of the ocean because I was sure I'd get eaten by sharks. So my dad told me that the bouys they use to mark off swim aread held shark-nets that would keep them away from the swimmers.

We have a dog named Bubba and when my daughter was 5 she asked me how come Bubba does'nt "shred" I said what Camrin? she said you know mom, why dooes'nt Bubba "shred" well it dawned on me what she meant, she really wanted to know How come Bubba does'nt SHED! I laughed so hard and corrected her and she said well Whatever mom! I still tease her about that today and shes 8.. she just rolls her eyes and says "Oh mom"...LOL