I used to think that cats were female and dogs were male. It made sense somehow at the time because for awhile I lived in an all female household and we had cats, but no dogs. And I met my grandfather's friend and he had a bunch of dogs, but no cats. makes sense right? ;)
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I live near a big hill and my mum told me that the sheep who lived on the hill had to walk down the hill backwards becuse it was so steep. Everytime I went past the hill I used to look for sheep walking backwards down the hill, but never saw any!!
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Whenever we would pass by a farm with cows, my father would tell me that the cows were called rabbits. I was convinced of this until first grade.
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Actually my niece. The first time she a penquin she took what she had in her available lexicon and came up with "Cowduck". Pretty smart for a 2 year old
When I was a kid, I was told that earwigs can only crawl forwards, not backwards. If they got inside your ear they could end up eating through your brain, because they can only go forwards. To this day I still believe it.
when i was little, i used to think that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys, and that they had babies: the baby girls were cats, and baby boys were dogs. i had a friend (who i didn't know then) who used to think so too!
I thought that the Gremlin rules (from the movie, like don't get the wet, don't feed them after midnight) applied to all animals. I was so scared when my dog was outside in the rain.
When we were younger me and my brother used to rip the wings off greenfly. One time to stop us from torturing one my mum told us we should look after him and his name was Peter. For years we believed that all greenfly were called 'Peter'.
I live in the country, where we have grey and brown squirrles. When I went to my cousin's house in the city there were only black squirrles. Naturally, I felt sorry for them because they were so dirty from pollution. I always wanted to somehow give them a bath.
I could talk (bark) with dogs, and
understand everything they were saying.
Other people claimed that I couldn't,
but I thought they were just being stubborn.
When I was little my best friend told me I could grow a horse if I planted horse hair in the backyard. So, every week after our riding lesson, I would collect a clump of mane and tail hair and proceed to scatter it around the lawn. I never had a pony as a child. I was so gullible.
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I used to believe that cats were all female, and dogs were all male and that the two species mated
i grew up on a farm, and often we would round up the cows and take them to a different pasture. i was told that if i am walking behind a cow and it goes number 2, that if it got on me they turned to freckles. needless to say i have freckles but i was never splattered on thank goodness
When I was a kid, we used to get earwigs in the house all the time. I thought that they were called earwigs because they'd crawl in your ear and eat your brain - this gave me NUMEROUS nightmares. One day when I was in my teens, Dad brought home a load of corn for canning. As I was husking the corn, I kept finding earwigs in ears of corn and all of a sudden, I realized that the bugs must be called earwigs because they were often found in ears of corn.
Still don't like them though and I don't EVEN want to tell you how many nightmares I had when Khan put the bugs in Checkov's ear in the movie The Wrath of Khan!
I grew up in the West Indies, and we had tarantulas in the neighbourhood. I was terrified of them, and worried that I would have one in my room one night. I asked my father what they sounded like, and he said "like someone snoring.' I shared my room with my brother. Who snored. I didn't sleep for five years.
As a child, I thought that all dogs were 'boys' and all cats were 'girls', and when they got married and had children, they would have a mixture of puppies and kittens.
My grandma used to say that there were snakes that could come up from the ground at night that were huge and the color of dirt in order to keep me from going out side at night
When I was little, and even now, I believed that I had to watch my cats when I brought them home to see if they were good or evil. I was afraid they might try to kill me or eat me at night if I went to sleep so I could never go to sleep when I brought them home on the first night.
When I was about 5 or 6, my older sister convinced me that mosquito bites only itched when the mosquito had been interrupted mid-bite and didn't get to finish the job and seal up the whole. She told me if I held perfectly still and let the mosquito bite me undisturbed, then the bite wouldn't itch. I suffered through a LOT of bites before I finally decided she was wrong!
I got a book from the library on spiders, and read about the black widow. It said that it's webs could be found behind couches and chairs. If any of my toys fell behind the couch, I wouldn't get them for fear of the black widow. My mom retrieved a whole pile of them one day. Little did I know that black widows did not live in the part of country were I am.