animals

I was very converned about animals as a child. I couldn't bear to see scenes in movies or on tv in which people used whips on horses. My other assured me that they were either whipping the ground next to the horses or whipping the saddles. I believed her because the alternative was just too monsterous to believe.

My Dad convinced me that Manx cats had no tail - and only three legs.

I used to believe…

that Koala bears lived in the eucalyptus trees in Tilden Park (Bay Area, CA).

One of my old babysitters told my sisters and me that if we went outside without shoes on, then we'd get 'hookworms' hooked onto the bottoms of our feet and they'd go into our skin and kill us.
We still didn't wear shoes...

i believed that sheep who live on the side of reservoirs had two legs shorter than the other and that they had to walk around the reservoir in the same direction otherwise they’d fall over.

I used to believe blue crabs, stickers(sand spurs), and barnicles were all made by the devil.

I grew up on a river and as a little boy, played in the empty lot next door and down by the river. Of course the 3 things that hurt me way back then were blue crabs, sand spurs, and barnicles.

I used to think that by hanging frogs from the garden pond off the washing line (I made them cling on with their 'hands') and catching them in buckets of water I was actually teaching them a valuable lesson in survival that would someday help them escape from the local cats.

My wife and I have convinced both our children that the bales of hay you see no-a-days wrapped in polythene are actually cow eggs.

When I was 5 my family bought a rabbit off one of my Dad's drinking mates. He said his own pet had had babies and it's name was peter. For the next 5 years he hopped along happily eating hay and dropping little brown balls on our balcony. It was only when he died we found out from the vet that he was a she. My Dad's friend had stolen "him" from a field.

The first and last transvestite rabbit?

when I was a child, cats were the girls and dogs were the boys!

I used to belive that one can catch birds if you put salt on their tail.
I tried for a verry long time to cath a bird like this :-)

My brother told his two little girls that the racing snails in the Guinness adverts were really valuable, and that if they ever found any racing snails in the garden they should put them in their pockets and bring them to him so that he could make lots of money. I dread to think of the state of their coat pockets...

I used to believe that cats were girls and dogs were boys.

I believed that the insects earwigs would crawl up inside your ears and into your brain when you were asleep in bed

My Dad used to place slugs onto a badminton raquet and launch them into next door's garden whilst telling me how much slugs loved to fly. I still believe that they do.

My friends and I all used to believe that any flying insect with any red colouring was a "blood sucker" and you weren't to let it land on you or it would suck your blood and you would die. Ladybirds were not blood suckers!