animals

When I was small my mother told me that if you pick up a guinea pig by its tail its eyes would fall out. I spent many hours crying about the poor guinea pigs which I loved. I was quite old, maybe about 13 when I was told they don't have tails.

my daughter used to think that sheep that were grazing on steep hills had two legs shorter than the other to help them balance! She also believed (her dad told her this one) that all babies were born boys and if you wanted a girl you had to put them in a freezer and then there willies would drop off!!

I used to believe that welsh rabbits were made of cheese (welsh rarebit)

When my Dad was going out to the Pub my Mum always told me he was going to see a man about a dog. As we lived on the farm and already had three dogs I was always confused as to where we were going to put all these dogs!

i used to think that all animals were made in factories!

I and a number of my friends were told by a teacher in primary school that Haggis were small sheep-like creatures which lived in Scotland. She went on to elaborate that Haggis' right legs were shorter than their left legs and so they lived on steep hills and only moved anti-clockwise around the hill. The way to catch one was therefore to run towards it from the opposite direction. It would then try and turn around to flee but, due to the whole leg thing, it would, of course, topple over and roll down the hill, where another person would be waiting to catch it.

Needless to say that, coming from a teacher, I believed this for years.

I used to think animals understood everything just like we did, so I was very hurt when I helped a bug out of the swimming pool and it stung me! Didn't it know I was trying to save it from drowning?

i used to believe that catapillars were like toupees, people used them for their moustaches, eyebrows and the fur around the catapillar for eye lashes. well i noticed them one day on me face and i ran around screamning "GET THE CATAPEE-ERS OFF MY FACE, IT'S BURNING IT'S BURNING IT'S BURNING REAL BAD!!!!!!!!!"

my friends older brother convinced her that these rabbit droppings he found were chocolate drops. She still, twenty years down the line, cringes at the memory of the taste of these chocolate droppings.

My mother told me that the first sound of a morning was the birds tweeting and farting in the trees as they woke up to start the day. I was always trying to wake up early enough to hear them as I had never heard a bird fart.

My mother told me once (and I believed it), that Chow dogs were poisonous because they had black tongues. I always kept a safe distance from then on, if I ran into that kind of dog.

I used to believe, as a child, that horses were male cows.

I used to believe that a bull in a china shop meant a bull in a take away. I mean wot's that gotta do wiv going in feet first ?
And that was the image I carried in my head, this great big bull being chased around by Chinese cooks in a takeaway.

Tee
Gibbon king PhD

My mother believed until very recently, that slugs were snails that had come out of their shells. She used to go around the garden breaking empty shells, so they wouldn't be able to get back in.

I told my eldest daughter when she was 2 that horses drove horse floats, she believed it until she was 8 and we drove past one and she saw the car towing the float.

I used to believe…

that there were no flies in china nd that the Chinese government had soldiers stopping them come over the great wall which went right around china-mum told me that they didnt need fly spray like in NZ