When I was young I thought that all cats were female and all dogs were male. Cats and dogs would reproduce and the offspring were either cats or dogs, depending on the gender.
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I used to believe that dogs were the daddies in the family, cats were the mommies and cute little mice were the babies and youngsters. Used to imagine doggy dads with pipes reading the newspapers, mummy cats in aprons wielding a spatula and mice sitting around playing monopoly. :P
I also thought that only cats were female and only dogs were male. I guess its because cats at so feminine and loving, but dogs are boisterous etc. Plus, it doesn't help a childs imagination when you only have female cats and male dogs. Its great to here I wasn't the only one!
When I was about 4 or 5 and I saw my cat, Baby, taking a nap, I would stare at her and convince myself that she had died. I would then walk up to my "dead" cat and pet her on the head and whisper 'goodbye, Baby' without trying to tear up and stay strong. I would then rejoice and be in complete awe when she woke up. It took me a while to realize that Baby really was just sleeping and now that I'm 16 and still have the same cat, I sometimes pet her while she's sleeping just to make sure she's going to wake up.
When I was about 4-5 years old, I put some pussy willows behind the warm wood stove.
When my mom found them she asked why I put them there.
I said I beleived the pussy willows would hatch into kittens. I wanted one really bad.
My mom did get me one. A kitten that is
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When we drove by my sister used to comment about all the mushrooms in the fields. Of course, they were actually sheep!
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I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.
My Mum and Dad were going on holiday and I sincerely warned them about time-share sharks and to be careful in the water.....
.......mentioned every Christmas that one.
My younger sister was seven and she was colouring in a picture I had drawn when she asked me if you could have brown birds, to which I replied "yes" of course. Then she said "oh yeah - in Pakistan".
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i used to think that black widow spiders wher spiders whos husbands died so they were widows and they allways wore black cos they were sad.
When I was younger i used to believe that there were dolphins behind the sound barriers on the freeway going into Memphis.
when i was about three i was deathly afraid of cows. And it didn't help that my older sister collected stuffed cows. Well, i refused to go into our living room after dark because for some reason i was convinced that the cows would come up to the window and moo at me.
did i mention we live in the suburbs and theres not a single cow for miles?
i also used to think that a MooCow was a special breed of cow.
I used to believe that getting an animal "fixed" meant giving it an operation to make it stop peeing. Now that i have a cat, i can see how that would actually come in handy!
i always thought that tigers and lions were the same animal except tigers were girls and lions were boys...i just found out a week or so ago that that's not that case... and i'm almost 16...
I used to believe that fish fingers (fish sticks) actually swam in the sea. When I was 5 at school we had to paint a picture of creatures under the sea and I painted fish fingers. My teacher held up my painting and embarrassed me in f4ront of my whole class. She thought I did it on purpose but I must have actually believed they swam in the sea!
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I used to believe that a cat burglar was a hamburger made out of cat meat. When I learned what a burglar was, I thought it meant someone who stole cats.
One of my favorite movies growing up was "The Cat From Outer-Space." I had an orange cat just like in the movie and used to believe that my cat was from outer-space too and could talk, but she just lost her special, alien collar in order to do so.
when i was about 4 years old i saw cows mating and announced, "look! that cow is giving the other cow a piggy-back ride." my uncle calmly said, "no, those cows are playing leap-frog."
when i was younger i wanted a pet but we werent allowed so my older brother told me that if you get an egg and wrap it in a warm towel or keep it warm using your body heat then it will turn into a chick. i fink he said to hold it for like a whole day or something. during this time i wanted to check if th chick was actually growin so i cracked it to see if ther was a lil chick fetus thing there and when there wasnt i started all over again. ya i tried for AGES and needless to say there was no chick. :(
When I was 3-4 I thought when you reached the age 5 you turned into a dog because at the time we had two dogs and my cousin said they were my older brother and sister.