animals

Until I was 9 I thought that all dogs were boys and all cats were girls.

I used to live in Arizona where they would hang "Jackelopes" in all the doctors and dentists offices. My dad told me that they were secretive creatures that were fierce if u caught one, but they hid and that's why I'd never seen one in real life.

When I was about 22 I was in a Docs office with my best friend and told her the story and she started cracking up and said "U don't really believe in them do you?"

I used to LOVE pouring salt on slugs and watching them bubble and sizzle - until my Mother told me that slugs could jump! I never felt safe after a rainstorm again... Love ya' Mom!

I use to think that cats only got spayed and dogs only got neutered.
Both me and my brother didn't realize that neuter meant castration till we had our dog fixed. Bit of shock for us when he got home from the vet.... well not as big of a shock as it was for the dog though.

On rainy days, my younger brothers and I would be such pests that as soon as the rain eased up enough for us to go out in it, our parents would dress us in raingear and send us out to go snark hunting. We thought snarks were little lizards, like skinks, and they hid under rocks, only coming out after rain to get a drink. We had great plans to keep any we caught in a special hutch and show them to the kids at school. It wasn't until much later that I read 'The Hunting of the Snark' and realised that snarks didn't exist. It was such a disappointment that I don't think I ever told my siblings, in case I spoiled their fun. 

When we had dinosaur week in kindergarten, my teacher said that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was the king of the dinosaurs. So until third grade, I thought that there was only one Tyrannosaurus Rex ever. 

I used to believe the scar on my Grandpa's nose came from a pigeon pecking at it, cuz that is what he told me when I was about 10. (He used to raise homing pigeons) Now, I'm 35 and recently asked him how a pigeon could do that without him stopping it......
He laughed and laughed.... Then told me that it was a mole that left a very bad cleft scar there!

I used to believe that there were cute furry creatures called "Snipes" that lived in the woods - and my camp counselors would make us search for them for hours. I think I actually fooled myself into beliveing that I was seeing them.

I used to believe that elephants had brains the size of a human thumb and managed to convince many people of this. Later, I saw an elephant brain in a bottle at a musuem, and was shocked to see that it was actually around 4.5 kilograms and therefore much larger than even a human brain.

I used to believe that giraffes didn't make any noise and that was because they didn't have voice boxes. I never thought about it much but when I went to Kenya 2 years agao I found out that they do have voice boxes and that they do make noise.

I too used to think that cats were girls and dogs were boys. We've mostly had female cats, so any male cat is known as an "honorary girl". When referring to them as a group, we always call them "the girls". With other animals, I used to think that the bigger animals were boys, and the smaller ones girls.

I thought Sea Monkeys were really little monkeys, like on the package, but that they were just so so small, you couldn't really see any details.

When I was kid, I was under the mistaken impression that a quarter horse and a Shetland Pony were the same thing.

I believed that if you saw a praying mantis and it was praying, then it was about to attack you. Don't ask me why I thought they prayed prior to an attack. And don't ask what that "attack" entailed - I have no clue, but I was sure afraid of them!

Like so many others, I, too, beliived for a long while that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys. My best friend's little brother, though, knew better. HE was positive that boy dogs had boy puppies, and girl dogs had girl puppies.

I always thought that roaches were out to get me, especially at night. I would put my sheets and blankets in different ways so as to either trick the roaches or keep them out. To trick them, I would put the sheet on bottom and an afghan on top. To keep them out, I would put the afghan on bottom and the sheet on top. I don't know how I decided on which method per night.