There is a lady in our church, aged 80, who STILL believes that cats and kittens are female and dogs and puppies are male. About 15 years ago, I tried to tell her otherwise and she became very angry, saying that I was deliberately making fun of her.
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When I was about 7 yrs old our chickens would jump over the fence and dig up mums garden so Dad said he was going to chop their toenails off, using an axe (!) of all things. Little did I know but he was actually chopping their heads off and right up until I was about 15 I really believed that chickens would die if you cut their toenails off.
As a child my parents enjoyed reading the Winne the Pooh books.And my favorite stuffed animal was a Kangaroo and baby roo. She was red with a white underside and pouch.As an adult, at the zoo-the first time seeing a live kangaroo:I burst out in front of all the people there - "It is the WRONG color!" I was so disappointed in the natural drab mousy color.I could not believe it!
when my older sister and i were little girls, we had a dog named Winky 'cause he had one eye. well, one day, we couldn't find him. so, to be the good sister she is, my sister told me that Winky had been flushed down the toilet. for a long time, i feared the potty.
When i was younger I found a bee on the window ledge, it wasn't moving much so I thought it must be dying. I didn't want it to die so I thought I'd try to revive it. I did this by scooping it up onto a leaf and putting it at the top of the garden on a rock with a big spoonful of honey next to it, thinking that it would eat the honey and feel better! When I came back to it later it was gone (probably eaten by a bird or somehitng), oblivious to the fact that I'd left a dying and virtually helpless creature in such an exposed place I was very pleased with myself for being so kind and helpful!
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My mother and father told me you could catch a bird by putting salt on its tail.....never got close enough to test it out
When we were young, my friend and I convinced my friend's little brother that the birds were calling out his name.
"Pete! Pete!"
He listened and a look of shock spread across his face as he heard it.
"Pete! Pete!"
It was the time of year when big black evil looking birds gathered and swarmed in big black masses across the cold sky. I think he must have thought that they were going to get him.
You have to understand I live in Montana up north. I used to believe that there were aligators in Montana. I thought they would eat me. I think I got the Idea from the crazy eyed crocodile in Peter Pan. Hehe
When I was little I used to have these massive temper tantrums. When the occured in the car, it was especially tormenting for my mother [the driver] and to distract me she'd point out the window excitedly: "LOOK! A GIRAFFE!" or "Wow! I just saw an ELEPHANT!"
Suddenly, I'd get all excited, then incredibly disappointed when I couldn't see the animal.
as a child of a 'neat freak' my mother used to stress about crumbs on the counter because 'tomorrow we'll have ants'. i wish she had been more specific, for the longest time i thought crumbs turned into ants.
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When I was little I used to belive that dogs pooped out their tales...
I used to believe that cows just started to produce milk spointaneously at some point. It was quite a shock when I deiscovered that they are "dry" heifers until they have their first calf. Then the surplus milk the cow produces is used for human consumption. As the time from the calving increases the amount of milk produced decreases. So the cow is mated again, and after the calving she will again have a full udder
You know how some people get animal heads mounted on wooden plaques? Well when i was about 5 or 6 my Grampa Jack told me that if you go outside and look on the other side of the wall the rest of the animal is on the other side with their head stuck in the wall. So each time I would go look and of course there was no body and Grampa just said "Didnt you see them? They ran away after you left"
I used to believe that that the clams I found on the beach each had a little goldfish living inside. I think it was because my mum told me they were called "Shellfish". Fish in a shell - obviously!
When my sisters and I were younger we insisted on getting a dog. However the novelty soon wore off and we weren't prepared to walk it or look after it anymore (like many other children, I assume!). So one day upon returning home from school, the dog was missing. My Dad told us that "Major" (the dog) had been recruited by the army as it's mascot and was crrently in training at an army barracks, far away.......... Only a few years ago did he confess, he had actually given him away to a friend of his who lived in the countryside.
i love that when you're little you think that animals are animals and people are people, but people are most definitely not animals. i remember being just old enough to get the concept that people were animals, but i couldn't convince my younger stepsisters this fact because i wasn't smart enough to articulate my idea. i would argue for hours with them about it and all they wanted to do was play my nintendo.
I used to think that cows and horses were the same thing like the horse being a boy and the cow being a girl
when they breed the baby would either be a girl(cow)or a boy (horse)
I used to believe that kittens and puppies could choose what color they wanted to be before they were born. So I figured all multi-colored cats and dogs simply didn't decide which color they really wanted to be fast enough before being born!
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When I was a little girl I believed that dogs were always boys and cats were always girls. How this worked, I'm not sure, but that's what I thought.
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when i was 21 i used to think that birds were rabbits with wings..im 45 now and realise i have learning difficulties...