animals

I used to believe that ladybugs and fireflies ate salami, so everytime I caught one I would put it in a jar with a slice of pepperoni. The bugs weren't too happy, neither was my mom who found the jar later on under my bed. Bug abuser!!!

When I was about five years old, I finally discovered what eggs were: the things baby chickens came out of. From that point on, I was obsessed with finding a baby chicken. Every morning, I'd sneak into the kitchen and pull an egg out of the fridge. Then I'd carry it outside and throw it as hard as I could into the street, and I'd run out to see if a baby chicken was part of the wreckage. I never found one that way, so I figured I was doing something wrong. Around that time, my parents had explained to me about seeds growing into trees, so I got the brilliant idea to bury an egg and allow for the baby chicken to grow out of it like a seedling. Before I buried it in my front yard, I took off one of my socks and wrapped it around the egg, lest the chick get cold. We moved from that house about a week later, so for a few years afterward, I always wondered if the baby chicken had grown out of the ground, and if the neighbors were taking care of it for me.

I used to belive that all cats were female and all dogs were male!

I was 6 or 7 and we had this cat. My younger sister thought the whiskers were too long so she gave him a haircut but only on one side of his face before my dad saw her. Everynight After that he would bump into the wall on the side that she cut the whiskers.

i used 2 belive that donkeys wer baby horses until i saw a foal so i decided they were really old ones that had shrunk insted

Like many others I believed that all cats were female and all dogs were male, but the rest of my animal education as a child was quite impressive. I knew that dogs and cats couldn't mate, therefore they would soon become extinct! I worried about that for months.

when i was little i used to believe that could talk to squirrels. i had a squirrel who was my best friend and i named her buttercup. so everytime we were in the car and i saw a squirrel running across someone's yard, i would scream "hey there's buttercup!" yeah... im pretty sure i saw about a hundred squirrels named buttercup.

I never looked too closely at birds. I used to assume that when they landed, their wings disappeared, even though they really just fold up onto the body. I assumed that they grew back when the bird took off.

I used to think that black widow spiders lived under my covers, but ONLY at night when i was under them, and I would be scared they were going to crawl up my legs at night when i wasnt looking.

I used to think that cats and dogs were the same animal - the only difference being that cats were girls and dogs were boys.

I had a cat named Tarzan, and he always used to sit on top of our sofa. When I looked at him, his tail was swishing back and forth. I thought that his tail was alive, like a worm or something, and I thought that it was watching me, like a radar. But I was only 5!

My hamster, Charlie, had this annoying habit of running up the chimney when we let him out. I remember all the hours I spent with my family staring up the chimney, watching for any rodent-like movements. Anyway, each time he came down, he would be covered in soot. Since he had gone up a white hamster, and come down a black one, I reasoned that it was in fact a different hamster that came down each time. I thought there was this whole city of hamsters living in our chimney, and whenever one wanted to rejoin his family, he would go up the chimney and another one would be sent down. I think I must have had an overactive imagination.

I used to think that 'girl cats' were cats but with long green hair on their head, like in the style of a female person, except with metallic-green coloured hair.

When I was very small I had a stuffed monkey, which I loved. One day I left it on the bus and my mother couldnt get it back so she later went out and bought me a cuddly giraffe. I cried when I noticed it wasnt the monkey and my dad said that when monkeys grew up they grew into giraffes. I believed this until 5th grade when we were learnng about evolution in science.
My teacher asked:"what did apes and monkeys evolve into"?
Si put up my hand and said:"GIRAFFES" everyone teased me for months after that. I have never been able to forgive my father.

When I was little, I used to love dinosaurs, and thought that they didnt poop because they were too cool....

I used to think that the 'cat walk' was something only cat's did. But only really special ones, like my cat, because he was so handsome and clever, and that at night he would parade up and down a runway(just like with actual cat walks) infront of all the other local cats as they looked on in awe.