animals

My brother from Texas brought his wife and two boys to visit one summer. The youngest (age 5)was fascinated with the chicken coop in the back yard. The coop was surrounded by these tall pine trees. So my mother and I took him inside the coop where the top of it was covered with pine needles. Once inside, he noticed a Praying Mantis on the side of the chicken wire and thought it was cool and went to touch it, my mother told him not to because the Mantis will "spit" at you and you'll go blind! Right at the moment, a pine needle fell from the chicken wire above us and grazed his cheek and my nephew went berserk! Screaming "I'm gonna go blind, I'm gonna go blind!"

My dad had an old-timer's saying, "If you wish to live and thrive, let a spider go alive." I took that to mean that if you squash a spider, you are in for a run of really bad luck!

When I was younger, I believed that my dog Sasha(a Basenji) was an alien. She didn't bark like other dogs and her tail was curly. I thought that didn't bark because she could actually talk and that her tail would unroll and become like an antenna so she could talk to the other alien dogs. Everytime we left the house she would go under the porch. I thought she had a computer and radio's under there to talk to her species. Haha... I once crawled all the way under to see if there was anything. When the movie Cats & Dogs came out, I was an adult, but I thought maybe instead of an alien, all this time she was a secret angent. Haha... I still kinda wonder sometimes... She's way past the point that most dogs die.

I used to think dogs had jobs, their own cars, went shopping for groceries..and to the bank on their own..we never saw them do this, because we were in school, during these times..I watched Snoopy as a child..

I once thought that snakes had legs like a centipede.

I used to beleive all dogs were boys and all cats were girls....

I used to believe that the first time I heard about an animal was the first time ANYONE had heard about it. The platypus was discovered sometime in the early to mid-nineties.

I used to believe…

haha! there was a time when i was younger when i turned around to my mum and said: "if there is a brown bird, does it mean they are from pakistan?" my mum told me when i was older and i feel so ashamed...

When I saw a picture of someone milking a cow, (with a bucket underneath it) I thought that person was trying to encourage it to pee.

For several years I believed that if you stuck your tongue out near a horse, it would try to bite your tongue off. I thought that my riding teacher told me that. Turns out, she said that I shouldn't stick my tongue out while riding because I might accidentally bite it.

During my elementary school years I believed that all animals had curseword names because female dogs were referred to as "bitches". Somehow I assumed male dogs were called "bastards" but was embarrassed to ask what the curseword names for other animals were, though I was dying of curiousity.

I used to believe that if I caught a butterfly, and rubbed the powder off his wings, I could rub the powder on my arms and then I would be able to fly (the poor butterfly sure couldn't, anymore!). And then, when I couldn't fly, I just figured that I hadn't got enough powder yet...

I was about two or three, but I vaguely remember we had a yard full of cats. I remember walking among them and wondering where all these things were coming from. I thought they dropped out of sky one by one.

Whenever I saw a picture of a whale spouting water, I thought it was urinating.

I used to think that when I slept with a cat it would keep all the bad ghosts away.

I still think that!

I used to believe that every cat was female, and every dog was male. Don't ask me how I thought they reproduced...