animals

Cats and dogs are the same species.

I certainly believed, and not without a lot of independent reasoning. To me, cats were unmistakedly feminine and dogs very macho. They also vary wildly in size, with a shitsu dog looking much closer to a kitten that a great dane. So I believed that dogs and cats were the males and females respectively of the same species. I can't tell you how disappointed I was to find out I was wrong.

As a kid I think I asked to many questions. My Dad finally explained how the sheep stood upright on the steep slops of the mountains by telling me that they had shorter legs on one side. My biology teacher found that a unique proof of natural selection.

When I was little I used to believe seagulls were called 'seagirls' and no matter how hard my mum tried to get me to say seagulls, I always replied 'Yes, SEAGIRLS! That's what I said!'.

It was only until years later when i saw it written down that I realised! D'oh!

I used to believe that goats were male sheep. This persisted until I was at university and my boyfriend took me to a city farm so I could see goats and sheep - and male sheep - together.

I used to believe that the cows in Switzerland, the ones who could be found grazing in the Alps, had a set of legs that were shorter than the other, so that they could stay balanced on the hills. It is my parents that told me this, and I believed it well into my late teens.

My mom told me when I was about 4 years old that spiders could run faster than humans. One day, while in the basement, I put my finger in a hole in the wall and a spider came out. I almost killed myself running up the stairs, certain that the spider was right behind me!

I am so glad I am not the only one who thought cats were girls and dogs were male!

When I Was A Kid My Dad Told Me That On Christmas Eve At Midnight All Animals Fall To There Knees And Pray He Even Backed It Up By Telling A Story About A Farmer That Did'nt Believe The Story And One Christmas Went Out To His Barn At Midnight And Saw His Cows Praying And The Next Day They Found Him Dead.

I used to believe that cats and dogs were the same species and that cats were the females and dogs were the males!

I used to think I was a tiger, I even made my friends play "animals" with me, where I learnt to walk (four legged) on a very narrow wall, and I made myself a cave where i had tiger toys and pretended they were my children.
I also, could run on 4 legs (u know wat i mean) REALLY well, i'd do it all the time down the hallway until we got our new house, and by then, i must have been 13... Yeah I know! I was crazy, but I could run so well, if anyone ever would have had a competition i could win SO WELL!!

I used to believe that the expression "The room was literally not big enough to swing a cat" referred to the swinging of an actual live cat by the tail, at arms length, completely around one's body. I have come to understand, with some disapointment, that the "cat" is actually a "cat-o-nine tails" -- a type of whip used for dicipline aboard ships, whose quarters were often insufficient to swing the device with the sought after level of vigor.

I used to believe that if a wild bird got into the house it meant that a relative or a close friend had died and that a telegram would soon arrive telling of the death.

When i was 5 years old, my brother convinced me that monkeys lived in water tanks. And i always went looking in peoples water tanks to find the monkeys. I soon realised that he was lying.

I used to believe that cows in wales had longer back legs than front so they could stand on the hills... my farther told me this which for some reason i believed until i was 16 years old.... very odd i know.

When I was small I thought that birds must be made from electricity! How else could they stand on the power cables?
It took me 5 years before figure out the physics behind it!

i u to bleave that cat where girl dogs