animals

When i was little my friend told me that the rocks in her backyard were hermit crab eggs. So i took a couple rocks, and went home with my mom and then sat on the rocks for a long time, keeping them warm like a chicken.

When I was about eight, I saw scientists on a TV news show talking about how dinosaurs had evolved into smaller animals. Somehow I missed the part about which animals (birds and whatnot) and I believed for a considerable amount of time that dinosaurs has shrunken down to insect size and lived underground. So I would dig for them under this big pine tree in my yard.

When i was little I had a dog and everytime i would hear a dog bark i thouht that the dogs thought that they were speaking english in there mind but when they tried to talk it came out as a bark and not english.

we once convinced my OLDER sister that the little red balls on the powerlines in large cities were actually subdivision housing for the city squirrels sice there weren't enough trees to go around! well, we let her believe this for about a year......i think she figured it out when i kept telling everyone about it. she was 15!!!!;) thank god for siblings!

I was six years old when Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Birds" was released. My family and I saw it and truthfully, it really frightened me! To add to my fears, my parents thought it would be fun to visit Bodega Bay. When we arrived, the green grass in front of the hotel we were staying in, was covered with crows. I didn’t want to get out of the car. My younger brother and younger sister laughed at me. They convinced me to get out because in "reality" they told me, the birds only attack at night. Come night fall, I was under the bed and very very upset! My family laughed and laughed. I slept under that bed all night and was angry at them for laughing. Of course, that was over 40 years ago and I am now an avid bird watcher and part of Cornell University’s Project Feeder Watch. However, I do confess, on occasion, when I see a black crow, I wonder……..

When I was 12 my older brother had me convinced that the cows we used to see on steep hills were breed so the two legs on the up-hill side were shorter than the others so they could stand up straight. I used to wonder if they just walked round and round the hill to find new grass or just backed up.

i have a toy dog from the 'beanie baby' make i managed to convince someone in my class it was a real living dog. i told all my mates and thay laughed when they realized the kid had actually fallen for it. it wasn't until 2 years later when we were in year 6 that he asked me how my 'dog' was i replied "he's not real you know i do have a beanie baby but not a real dog!" i knew that 'said 'the kid'.
yeah right sure you did!

When I was 5 I was in an area with alot of cows. After studying cows and their poos for a bit and noticing that the cows and poos varied in colour, I proclaimed "Black cows do black poos, white cows do white poos and black and white cows do black and white poos"

Logical yeah?

I used to call grey cats "pussy willows" because I belived that a pussy willow plant grows into a grey kitten. I remember getting a pussy willow plant because I wanted a cat!

Once I saw a swan in a park, and my dad pointed it out to me. However, I was convinced that it was a big white duck, and so my parents tried to tell me that it was actully a swan, using a nature book. I wouldn't listen to them, and whenever they got the nature book out, I would turn the page to the "big white duck".

i thought that if you knocked an egg a chicken would come out

When I was three or four my mom took the family cat to the doctor. The doctor looked the kitty over and said "you cat has a virus" I missheard this as " your cat is a virus" And promplty yelled at the doctor "thats not a virus thats my kitty!!"

I used to believe that the eggs you buy at the grocery store were still "alive", so when I was like 4 or 5, I brought some eggs from the grocery store into my room on a pillow. After a while, my room started to smell really bad!

i saw our tom cat back up and spray the grape vine one day, i believed and informed my younger brother, that the cat was spraying for bugs, so we couldn't eat any grapes down there because of poison. i guess i was sorta right. lol

I used to believe that moose were NOT real, that the cartoon moose was a made-up animal. I also believed that "Jack-A-Lopes" (half rabbit half antelopes) WERE real. I was 21 and in college before I found out MOOSE were real animals.

When I wer 4 I lernt about rats. A big rat lived under our shed, a shed raised off the ground by an inch or so. Obviously rats were flat. Rats, I wer told, FLEW for the throat when cornered - aha rats could fly as well ! AND had razor sharp teeth. Not like the cuddly toys that pass for rats these days.