animals

When I was a little girl I used to believe that a mamma dog got her babies by going out into the woods,sniffing the trees to find the right one, then digging a hole to find her babies!

There was a pond we walked past every day on the way into (Primary) School in a small suburban part of the UK. One day on the way in I kept my usual date with it by leaping onto the bottom bar of the fence to look at it when I noticed a hippopotamus head. As I watched, intrigued, the head rose up as did the heads of several others of varying sizes (some very cute baby ones too) and they started performing all sorts of tricks. It was brilliant

Because we'd stopped people were curious as to why and so started gathering around us. The crowd increased and traffic started piling up and stopped for miles in either direction. And this Hippopotamus circus was named after me as I had discovered them. Our family called the pond the Hippopotamus pond as I insisted on it.

15 years later in a moment of extreme sanity I realised this had been an extremely vivid dream but it was so real to me.

It appears unusual, but I never believed all cats to be female and all dogs to be male (even though I'm German, and you neutrally say "die Katze" (f) and "der Hund" (m) in German). I was half convinced our dog could talk, though. I distinctly remember imagining he did on one occasion.

I used to believe in frog houses. I grew up in South Carolina on land that was "rich" in Red Clay.As children, my siblings and I would pack the clay over our hands and feet,pulling out our appendages carefully so as to not tear our creation, and build what we called "Froghouses." We would then run and capture frogs and place them in their newfound homes. I was ahead of the game. I was building froghouse condos by the late 50's.Have you ever built a froghouse?

I used to believe that llamas had two heads. I was obviously convinced by the special effects in Dr Dolittle. When I first saw one with only one head I reasoned that it was a different breed. I won't admit to how old I was when I came to this conclusion.

My mom told me that earthworms and even baby lizards love to enter human ears and build a nest inside where they lay eggs...till date I can never sleep with my ears uncovered...to my horror last year i woke up to find a little lizard smashed under my pillow...my fear is doubled now.

When I was young I thought all dogs were the boys (the dads) and all cats were the girls (the mums). and they got married and had babies...

I was very disappointed when I received my first set of Sea Monkeys... I thought they would be wearing clothes, hats and shoes as the picture in the magazine showed. Every day I'd peek to see if they had grown larger and gotten clothes.

I used to believe that cats and dogs were the same species, except that cats were the girls, and dogs were the boys. I mean, don't cats look feminine, and dogs look masculine? Well, I thought so.

When I was young I had a cat called Fluffy.. after a few good years she disappeared, my parents told me she'd run away with a boyfriend...

Only when I was 16 did I decide to confront them about it. I said "Mum, dad, Fluffy didn't runn away. She died didn't she?"

They told me she'd actually been sold to someone else. And I thought (and STILL think) I would have prefered if my kitty had died

When my husband was a boy, his uncle told him about cows that were specially bred to live on hillsides. They were called "sidehill gougers" and they had legs that were short on one side, long on the other. Farmers bred them in both left- and right-handed versions, but had to make sure to put them in the correct pasture, because if you got it wrong they'd fall down the side of the hill.

Hubby believed it for years!

One day I hid dog treats around the back yard and I wanted my dog to go and find them. Well, he just wagged his tail and barked at me but he wouldn't go look for the treats. I tried to be helpful so I wrote "bark bark" on the ground hoping my dog would read it and know to look for the treats.

When I was about 6, we learned that I had asthma because of my allergic reaction our dog, "Cinammon." As we had to get rid of Cinammon, my parents told me they were sending her "to a farm in New Hampshire." I believed this straight through to my sophomore year in college (13 years later) . . . of course, she was put to sleep . . .

I was a rather paranoid kid and remember convincing myself when I was quite young that my cat, Flower, was a robot and was in fact spying on me. I even tried (very gently) to pull her head off to prove it!

this one isn't for me but my friend emma! She believed that Cats are born with their eyes shut because the bodies are still processing the eyes, and also that cats are born without genitals! Don't ask me how she worked that one out!! : )

I used to believe that all cats were female and all dogs were male and then when a cat had a litter it was made up of kittens and puppies...