animals

When I was a little girl, my cousins and I would tease one of our younger cousins who believed that worms were snakes.
Everytime we would get a good rain night crawlers would scatter all over the ground and pavement. We would
then tell him "look out there's a snake" "Hey there's another one" He was terrified!!

I believed our budge could not only speak English but also read. I would write him notes with little instructions on. When he didn't follow the instructions, I assumed he was just being bloody-minded.

I used to believe…

that dogs were the males and that cats were the females of the same animal type

I used to think that cats were girls and dogs were boys. I may have confused feline and feminine, but their behavior reinforces my assumption.

My dad told me to go outside with a salt shaker and I could catch a bird. He said to sneak up on the bird, shake as much salt as I could on its tail, and then it couldn't fly so I could grab it. I spent a lot of hours clutching that salt shaker , trying to sneak up on birds!

I used to go snipe hunting - a joke played on me by older siblings. I was always told that if I were blindfolded and held out a paper bag and made funny noises, the snipe would come jump in my bag. I never caught a snipe, but I did catch a lot of rocks, and consequently -chuckles, that way. FYI, a snipe is a small brown bird... I saw one in the zoo once.

When I was 7 we visited my uncle's farm in Kansas (I was a city girl). I saw a mouse laying on the doorstep one morning. Thinking it would sing and dance, like they did in cartoons, I picked it up. I was so surprised when it bit me! Later I found out it was dying of poison and mice don't sing and dance. After I grew up I wondered why no one took me to the dr. for that bite.

When on a car trip thru the NW Oregon hills with my grandmother and grandfather we passed a herd of sheep grazing on a hillside. My grandfather told me that they were special sheep that were born with 2 legs on one side shorter then the other so they could stand level on the hillside.I believed him for quite sometime. After all your grandfather wouldn't lie , Right.

Since most cats were smaller, 'cuter' and more colorful than dogs. I used to think that cats were actually 'girl dogs' !

My daughter was 4 and went with her grandparents to their camp. She saw a large spider and her grandmother told her it was a "Grand Daddy Long Legs".When we arrived at camp she excitely tried to tell me about the spider and called it a "Long Legged Mother". She is still teased today.

My grandmother told us in order for us to stop whistling, that when we whistle at night we were actually calling snakes to us. I think I was about 13 years old when I finally figured out what she had done.

I used to think that my cats knew much more than humans do--regarding the meaning of life. I always thought they saw and talked to God...and knew what Heaven looked like.

I used to believe that all dogs were male, and all cats female. I don't know where I got this idea, but it is amazing how many seem to have believed it.

My dad used to tell me that I could so easily catch the little birds hopping in the yard if I would just put salt on their tails. Years later, with almost grown children of my own...I wonder how many laughs he got watching out the window while I chased endless birds with a salt shaker...only for them to fly away when I got close!!

When I was three years old I used to believe that we (the people) descend from pigeons.That's because some pigeons were always staying on my grandmothers' window-still.Later,somehow i gave up to believe in this.

cuando era pequeña y saliamos por la noche a pasear por el campo yo creia que las estrellas cantaban...hasta que descubri que realmente los que cantaban eran los grillos