animals

I used to believe that cats could steal our breath while we slept. Our big orange cat would love to curl up on my chest and put his face close to mine. I would always roll over onto my side so that he couldn't steal my breath.

When I was about like 3 years old we had a small kitten named cat and because of all the cartoons my sister and I watched I used to believe all animals could fly. So one day I climbed up on top of a dresser and dropped the kitten out of the bedroom window saying," fly kitty" and all she did was fall 3 floors down to the alley an bounce...which scared the heck out of my mom.

Up until my mid-teens, I thought that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys.

I used to believe…

That reindeer could leap so high and far it was as if they were flying. Their zoo enclosures always had nets over the tops so I believed this until my husband told me different-always wondered why people didn't tame and ride them-what fun!

The usual dog/cat sex thing and also the reason you couldn't understand animals was because they where speaking a different lanuage sort of like spanish or something

When my daughter was little I told her that my best friend and I had a pet camel when we were young named Clyde. We kept him in the horse pasture and rode him bareback everyday. She believed me untill she was five and I told her different.

When my parents tried to explain what an echo was, they didn't do very well. I thought it was an animal that lived in caves and mimicked you. I spent all our camping trips looking in cave to find the "echo"

When I was little I asked my dad one day why bulldogs faces were flat. He said it was because it was sitting in front of a window and saw a cat running outside. It tried to chase after it, but ran into the window, smashing it's face. And that was what I believed for the longest time.

I used to believe that cats climbed chimneys (only white or black cats). In Baltimore, people put ceramic cats on the outside of their houses as decorations, usually climbing a brick chimney. We weren't allowed to have pets, so my father would tell me what a bad pet a cat would make because they were always climbing up the house (he thought this would make them undesirable to me).

I lived with my grandparents on a farm. The day pasture was on the other side of the road. Every morning, after milking, we would drive the cows across the road to the day pasture, then drive them back across the road to the barn for afternoon milking.
I used to imagine a society of cattle, called "The American Cow-de-Dow", that all the cows belonged to. Some day, there would be a bridge arching over the road, so we wouln't have to stop cars when the cows crossed. I can still see it in my mind's eye.
At first, the pigs and chickens had their own orginizations, the Pig-de-Dow, (I forget what society the chickens belonged to), but eventually, they became members of the Cow-de-dow. Their were also international branches, the English Cow-de-Dow, etc.
Can you imagine the conventions?

When I was about six I read on the front of the Young Telegraph that a new animal had been discovered which was had the head of the barn owl and the body of a weasel. Quite logically I assumed that you could breed this animal by mating barn owls and weasels. It was not until many years later that I realised the date of this particular newspaper - 1st April!

Once I was told that cats see humans as just more cats. I still have no idea what that meant, but it tricked my mind into thinking that from a cat's-eye view, humans were all giant cats wearing clothes and walking upright. Then I started believing for some reason that if humans WERE cats, all the men and boys would have brown fur and green eyes, and all the women and girls would have white fur and blue eyes. Dunno where THAT came from.

When I was about 5 years old, I found a worm in the backyard. Me being me, I wanted it for a pet. Of course, my mother didn't want a slimy invertebrate in the house so she decides to tell me that all worms grow up to be snakes. I actually believed in this until I was in fourth or fifth grade.

My Papa used to tell us that we grew potatoes in our ears if we did not keep them clean, and also that dragon flys would sew our lips shut if they landed on us !

When I was little, my parents used to take us out to this local mexican restaurant quite often. Well, I was a bit of an obnoxious child, and to get me to behave, they used to tell me that the giant pot/urns in the corners of the room were filld with bugs and if I was bad the waiter would come over and put me in there and close the lid. Ever since then, I have had this unnatural fear of bugs. Not outdoors, but indoors. I can't sleep if I know there is a bug in the room. My parents laugh about it now, writing it off as first-time parent experimenting.

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP MY PARENTS WOULD NOT LET US HAVE ANY ANIMALS SO ONE DAY I WAS WATCHING ROMPER ROOM AND THEY WERE HACTHING EGGS IN AN INCABATOR SO I GOT AN EGG FROM THE REFRIDGERATOR AND SAT ON THE EGG SO I COULD HAVE A LITTLE CHICKEN AND OF COURSE IT DIDNT WORK SO I SAT ON ANOTHER ONE, NEEDLESS TO SAY I NEVER HAD A PET TILL ON MY OWN LOL