My parents own a very skinny tiger cat named Kaboodle, and my brother's family has a very large Golden Retreiver named Buddy. While babysitting the other day, my 4-year-old niece announced to me, "I don't think Kaboodle is Buddy's mother". I did some investigating and found out she got this from her older 9-year-old brother, who now at this late age has only just learned that cats don't give birth to dogs! :)
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When my mom used to brush my hair for me she would encounter a knot and I would scream as she tried to comb it out. To quiet me, she said that our dog would think my mom was trying to murder me and bite her. This worked for a few years until I realized my mellow Golden Retriever doesn't bite no matter what. But by that time I was burshing my own hair, so my mom lucked out.
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I used to belive that dragonflies were little helicopters with two tiny pilots in them. My grandfather told me this.
Till I was about 5 I believed that the partners of wolves are foxes and that they make babies together.
When I was about 5 or 6, my brother told me that bats like to swoop down and make nests in your hair. I think I still believe that one!
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I used to believe tucans were not real animals but some king of mythological creature.
When I was younger my cousin told me that earwigs get into your ear at night and eat your brain.I could barely sleep for years.I actually just recently found out that that wasn't true.And that was like 5 years ago!!! Ha ha.
when i was 6, i used to believe that unicorns were just poor horses that mean people had thrown nasty ice cream cones on their forehead. when my mom told me unicorns didn't exist, i told her that there was no such thing as unicorns just mean people. i still believe in unicorns.
My cousin was terrified of cobwebs because she thought they came from spiders. Which of course they do. But to calm her fears her mother told her that they are made by "The Cob Fairies" who are invisible and come at night to decorate houses... she still hates spiders, but has no problem with cobwebs now, even though she knows better!
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I used to believe that Poodles were a cross between a sheep and a dog.
I believed that until I was 18 and I started vet school!!!
Bit embarassing.
I never dared to smack a mosquito dead because I believe that if i smack a mosquito with my hands, the sting will poke thru my skin and it will suck my blood anyway.
I used to believe that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys. Don't ask me where kittens and puppies came from!!
I used to believe that sheep had one leg shorter than the other so they could stand on hills. I believed that until i was 18!
I used to believe the dogs were all boys and cats were all girls.
You shouldn't play in the dirt because worms will lay eggs under your nails and when they hatch your fingers will blow off.
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I never used to eat eggs because I worried that they would hatch in my tummy and I would give birth to chicks
I used to believe (when I was a 5 yr. old little girl) that if my bedroom door was open a big panda bear was going to come padding up the stairs and into my room and maul me to death. Little girls are SUPPOSED to think pandas are cute and adorable, not I, not I.
when i was 5 or 6 i used to beleave id get the strength of the animals if i drank their blood
My best friend in high school had an older sister who continued to have odd beliefs about various animals long into her adulthood. To make it all more interesting, she had a habit of mentioning them seeming with no reference to whatever else we might have been talking about at the time.
The one I recall most easily was when she just dropped the statement "Sheep turn into goats." one time while we were trying to figure out what movie we wanted to go see that night.
Polar bears eat mostly ice cream, and sometimes fish fingers.