animals

This comes from my father. He was told in school that when Huskies are in the snow, and get very cold, they would breathe through their tails. He envisioned a dog covered in snow sticking its tail in the air and breathing through it.

He found out probably 40 years later, watching The Discovery Channel, that Huskies will cover their noses with their tails to make breathing the cold air easier. It finally made sense.

I thought there were decapitated snakes heads in the sand at the beach which would bite me and kill me if I stepped them. I also thought they would chase after me. I wondered why so many silly people cut the heads off snakes at the beach when they knew how deadly they would become.

When I was little I was always afraid that if my feet were sticking out from under the blanket that spiders, monsters, etc. would be more accessible to me. I'm 23 now and still cannot sleep unless my feet are covered by the blanket.

When I was little I used to believe that each and every animals sound, was its name. Like, for example; a cat, instead of saying "meow", would say "cat", and a bird would not say "tweet", or "chirp", but "bird". What was I thinking?

When I was a kid, I didn't know that sheep would have their wool shaved off. I thought a sheep with wool was one kind of animal and a sheep without wool was a totally different animal.

For some reason I used to believe that they weren't REAL cows unless they were black and white dairy cows. I have no idea what I thought the other cows were but I know I didn't classify them as proper cows.

i used to believe unicorns were real and when they get old theyr horns came off

I'm delighted to read that others also were convinced that dogs were boys and cats were girls; I also thought horses were boys and cows were girls. I got one in four right!

I use to believe that all cats were female and all dogs were male. I don't know how I came to that conclusion, but at the time, it sounded logical to me.

Once when I was walking down the street with my dad (I was about two or three at the time), there was this huge fake butterfly. For some reason, it scared me because I thought it would eat my nose. For a year or two I avoided that and all other butterflies.

my dad use to believe and i think still believes that if you have tapeworm and you hold a raw steak near your mouth then the tapeworm will come crawling out from your body through your mouth

When I was quite young, my sister told me there were alligators in the river near our home. I believed this until, at age 24, I was directing a youth canoe outing on that very river and told them not to get in the water because the alligators would eat them. One bright young fellow informed me that it was way too cold where we were for alligators to thrive in the rivers!

Still to this day I wont lick envelopes bc I was told when I was younger that a woman licked one and cut her tongue and the enveloper had roach eggs on it and it got in her cut. Since it was warm in her mouth the eggs hatched and lots of cockroaches crawled out of her mouth. Ewww!

when i was a little girl. we would jaws on our 2 huge couches and when it was over i would totally refuse to step foot on the ground. I would not get off the coach because i thought that if i did step on the fllor, a shark would eat me.

i used to think that all dogs were boys and all cats were girls!

i used to believe that a marmoset was a fictional animal only on the ren and stimpy show....im 21 years old, and just figured out that it was an actual animal last year when i went to the zoo.