animals

I have always loved nature and from a very early age was read books about animals from all over the world. When I was about five years old I rode my little 16" bicycle down the quarter mile long lane of our farm. In the middle of this quarter mile journey toward the end of the lane nearest the road and away from the house, I saw a snake crossing the road. It was about two or three feet long. When I reached the end of the lane I was terrified because I was certain this was a "baby" snake and that its mother, a 30'(at least) python was lurking in the ditch on the side of the lane. I sat there at the end of the lane for a long time. I thought at least I was lucky and had not run over the baby and made the "mom" python mad. I decided on a plan and screwed up my courage enough to get on my bike and race back down the lane as fast as I could pedal that little bike. I raced into the house and related my brush with death to my mother only to find out that pythons did not live in Iowa they live on another continent. I was both relieved and chagrined

We have (In Vermont at least) those huge mosquito looking bugs referred o as "sewing needles", and when I was little one would get into my room or my tent while camping and my mother would say "They'll sew your eyes shut unless you close them." So she'd get me to go to sleep that way, but I believed it to be true.

I used to believe that cats were femail dogs.

When i was very young a bunch of kids ran around the corner of a building saying there was a doberman pincher.
When i looked ,i saw a butterfly and for years i thought a doberman was a pinching butterfly.

The people that lived next door to my grandparents had bee hives. It was pretty terrifying visiting there asquite a few bees would buzz around you. These neighbors told me these were special bees and they did not sting. I was never afraid after that and they never did sting me.

when i was a little girl my dad was a logger and he used to bring home lizards for me to play with. well he told me that they were baby dinosours and i remember sitting in the back yard one day, after i had let my most recent lizard go on his way and i was looking up and around wondering where all the grown up dinosaurs went because i had never seen one before. i figured they all must be kept in a big zoo of some sort so they diddnt go around squishing everything.

I used to believe…

up untill i think i was 19 years old i diddnt believe that chickens had sex. either my dad or my uncle told me when i was little that a hen would lay the egg and the rooster would come by and fertilise the egg, like salmon. the only reason i do not still believe this is because my boyfriends(now husband) mother had chickens and he told me one day that they were all doing it again on the front lawn, the following conversation was very embarrasing for me but now i know better.

When I was little we lived on a farm, and there were a lot of wild cats. My sister told me that the reason the cats never came near people was because I was evil, and they could sense that. She told me that all that cats had been friendly before I was born.

My grandfather told me that if you sprinkle salt on a rabbit's tail that it will freeze up so you can catch it. Of course the trick was getting close enough to a rabbit to get salt on its tail. I remember running through the yard chasing after rabbits with the salt-shaker in hand. He told me that the same thing worked on birds' tails.

I had a pet cat named Pippy, we got him when I was a kitten, and I remember I used to think that he would grow up into an adult, and the two of us would get married. I imagined him all dressed up and standing on two feet like Puss 'n Boots. I guess I thought his walking on four legs was similar to babies crawling.

As a child, I believed that if a little bug that I call a genie (don't know if that is the real name) landed on your finger and you made a wish while she was sittling there your wish would come true. To this day this 27 year lod believes that if a genie lands on yur finger you will have good luck!

I used to believe that it is always hot on the South and that pinguins wear the white t-shirts.

I used to belive that there was only one toad frog in the whole world. His name was toadder, i would catch him in the morning and let him loode in the evening. I cryed for days when i discovered more than one frog.

My aunt and uncle lived on a farm. They never had any animals, outside of dogs and about a billion cats. But when I was young, I thought that there was no way you could have a farm without chickens, pigs and cows, so I figured they were just very good at hiding.

My older brother told me when I was a child that if a dog sleeps with his legs straight that he was dead (stiff I suppose). Even though now I'm an adult and know how preposterous that is, I still gasp with fear if I see a dog napping straight-legged.

I believed that penicillen (that magical medicine) came from moles (those small little creatures underground whose name sounds curiously like the place penicillen really comes from -- mold)