animals

When I was little our family dog was an English Sheepdog. English Sheepdogs have no tails. I asked my dad why our dog didn't have a tail. My father went into a long explanation about shepherds not wanting to be taxed for their working dogs that he explained to me again when I was older. The tax collectors would use the tails to tell where the dogs were in the flock of sheep, so the shepherds cut off the dog's tails so the tax collectors wouldn't know how many working dogs they had.

All I got out of the explanation at age 5 is Dad didn't want to pay taxes so we cut the dog's tail off. I thought my father was pretty cheap and wished he had paid to keep the tail.

when i was little i had a swing set and i always before i got on the swing part i would flip it over because i thought a giant blak roach lived under there and was going to eat me otherwise.

When I was about 6 or 7 a wasp landed on my arm. I was wearing a coat so he couldn't have stung me but I didn't know that. I froze and didn't even blink. When my dad drove up in the drive way he asked, "What are you doing/" I didn't move a muscle but just replied "There's a wasp on my arm", thinking he would come get it off, but he just said"Well knoock it off!" but I answered him "He's SMILING at me!" I just knew if I moved he was going to sting me and was happy about it!! I never see a wasp that I don't remember "He's SMILING at me!"

My son is only two, but he's seen a lot of animals on TV. Almost everytime we go outside, he looks everywhere because he believes monkeys, giraffes, and elephants are living here in the USA but they hide so nobody can catch them.

I used to believe all cats were female and all dogs were male... this was also true for other animals.. such as all ostriches were female and all hippopotamus were male.

The first time as a child that I became acquainted with the "outbreaks" of 13- or 17- year cicadas, and saw their dead skeletons lying around in considerable numbers, I thought I was hearing these insects called "adas" and I thought that what was happening was that they got sick every 13 to 17 years. That's because I thought I was hearing of the "sick adas" that were dying in big numbers when the 13 to 17 year illness hit.

I went to visit my relatives in NY and my cousin played a trick on my brother and I. One evening he said, lets go snip hunting. He explained that snipes were little bird like creatures that live in the ground and get there buy digging little holes resembling snake holes. He said there's two holes for each snipe. He told us to cover up one hole of the pair and bang on the ground and scream and yell and the snipe would come shooting out the other hole and you catch it with a net. He told my brother to go inside and get a flashlight. Then I went with him to the backyard and he started digging little holes in the ground. I went along with it to fool my brother, and when he caught no snipes he suspected that he was being fooled. My cousin told him that snipes were real and to look it up on the internet. My brother soon found a site explaining the practical joke. It was so funny, I reccomend it if you want to see someone screaming and beating the ground.

When I was about 3 my cat, Rocky, died. He was about up to my waist when he died and untill about second grade I beleived that he was up to my waist, even as I grew, and I soon thought that he was the only house cat as big as a tiger. I believed this until my friend pointed out that he was up to a 3-year-old's waist, not a full grown person's waist.

When I was three years old my dad would refer to our dog Lacy as "Lace from space" beacause she liked the rhyme. As I started to grow up and started understanding the comcept of space I asked my dad if our dog was really from space. Enthusiastically he replied yes! With a puzzled look I glanced at the dog and walked off. Several days later she asked where in space does Lacy come from? My dad said the planet Venus. I then asked,"are all dogs are from Venus?" My dad replied "only crazy dogs that run around in circles when u crack an egg on a frying pan." Another puzzled look, but my dad knew for sure that Lacy went crazy when she heard an egg crack when it hit the frying pan. Then the next day, my dad was in the closet with me looking for my mittens when I noticed and pointed at an old face motorcycle helmet dads. "Is that Lacy's space helmet?" I asked. My dad said that my face was so serious that he could not hold back the laughter. If it were not for that weekness of my dads, the myth would have continued.

I asked my mom one day "mom, how do dogs have baby puppies?" well my mom told me since i was only 8 she told me that you put them in a room alone for a while and then later they have a puppy. I belived this until i was 11 almost!

I used to believe that dogs married cats and their babies were birds

I used to believe that taxidermied creatures were alive and that by some magical force they hybernated during the day, and came alive at night. Also if only their head was sticking out of the wall, their body was behind it. I used to tell them that I knew their secret.

i thought that i could milk my cat, barney.so when he felt me squeezing his niples and my parents saw i was reffered to a child physicalagist and still arent allowed any pet with niples

i used to beleve that when i grow up i'll be able to fly just like birds

When I was a kid, I thought dog’s tongues were made of bologna. I used to try to get hold of my dog’s tongue to find out. I asked my Mom if dog’s tongues were made of bologna. She said dog’s tongues were not made of bologna. I didn’t believe her until I was older.

When I was about five, we had a big tree in our backyard. I truly believed that squirrels lived inside the trunk of the tree and that the knots on the tree were doors. I would spend hours knocking on all of the "tree doors", trying to get a squirrel to answer.