animals

when i was little, i used to think of all the long, curly haired/ tiny dogs as guys, and the big dogs as boys. It made seeing alotta dogs in public kinda akward

When I was at that short age of about 4 or 5 where you're always playing on the floor, I used to play near a step that had a gap under the door. My dad warned me one day to be careful because "drafts" came out from underneath. Only I heard it as "giraffes".

I spent so many days after that watching for tiny giraffes to come out from under the door, but they never did...

My friend once told me the reason sheep could stand on a hills so easily was because they had differnet length legs. Seeing lots of sheep on hills i thought this was a reasonable idea and i actually believed it. The worst thing is that i was 15 when at the time!

When I was around 6 or 7, I heard about koalas for the first time. I remember thinking they were some brand new discovery/invention or something. i believed this for several years..

I used to be terrified of the dog pound. I thought that stray dogs were sent there and then passed through a conveyor belt that had giant sledge hammers that would come down and crush them. That is why it was called a "pound" and they had to be "put down". I still kind of think of it that way.

I used to believe that when the term, "Guerillas" was used, I actually thought it meant "Gorillas" as in the animal.

When I was little, looking at National Geographic magazines, I believed that if you touched the mouth of any of the creatures they could bite you. To this day I am still very careful when turning pages in one.

Once my neighbor and I were swinging on swings but we had to shake hem before we got on so the Earwigs would come out well on one occasion she decided to scare me and say that if they get in your ears they will eat your brains out. of course i was scared of them till i asked my mom if it was true.

When I was young I asked my father why people called the small sugar ants 'piss ants'. He explained to me that this is because piss ants cannot urinate. Seeing my confused expression he went on to tell me that when I see a really big ant, I should stay away because they are about to explode! I was always carful to avoid the big ants as a child.

I grew up near the ocean, and when we'd go to the beach I'd catch sand crabs and let them go. My dad told me that if one pinched me with it's claw it wouldn't let go until it thundered. I believed this for years.

When I was little I took several salt shakers and went looking for birds because I'd overheard the saying that if you could sprinkle salt on a bird's tail you could catch it. At dinner I was mortified when my mother commented about not being able to find her best pewter salt shaker. I'd left all the shakers outside under the porch! I think I snuck them back in the next day.

I used to believe the torn up tires from semi's on the side of the road were alligators because of all the tread from the tires and the way the tires were torn up, it looked scary.

I used to believe that earwigs-those bugs you see under rotting logs with two pinchers on their butts- could crawl into your ear while you were sleeping and attach themselves to your brain!

I used to believe that sometimes animals would be people who had magically transformed themselves so that they could spy on other people, and they would think like people but just couldn't talk. I still get nervous whenever my dogs stare at me while I'm changing - what if it's really a person???

When I was little, I thought that sheep and goats were the same animal. Just that sheep were all female and goats were all male.

A friend told me that Killer Whales / Orcas could tell if you were a bad person or not.

If you were bad then they would eat you. I totally believed it.