animals

When I was six or seven, my friend, who was from a Catholic family and had three Dachsunds, told me that the reason the fur on dogs' heads was softer than on the rest of their bodies, was because God patted them on the head. I'm not religious, and I wasn't when I was a kid, either, so I didn't think much of it at the time, but it is rather cute...

I used to believe…

not only did i think a hypotenuse was an animal, but i also thought that a hyperbole (pronounced "hyper-bowl") was a cousin of a hypotenuse or something. they were all in the hippopotamus family.

Bearing in mind my mother called my penis my 'tail' I was always so worried about being near dogs because they tended to wag their tails a lot and I didn't want to get covered in wee.

I used to believe that short haired cats were long haired cats who'd just had haircuts. I believed this until I was 14, when I asked a friend with a short haired cat if it had just had a haircut.

I grew up in Minnesota and almost every year my dad would travel to a mysterious place to go hunting. It was called Wyoming and he would send me postcards. One year, I got one of the statue of a Jackalope that is in the middle of Gillette, I think. When he brought a mounted one home and hung it on the wall, I was convinced that they truly existed. I argued the point for years with my friends, pointing to the furry critter on the wall that in Wyoming ONLY you could see these little jackrabbits hopping around with oversized antlers. After all, my dad wouldn't lie! smiles....

When i was little and saw "LOST DOG" posters on street lights or on notice boards around town, i thought that when it said FOUND DOG that the animals that were Lost had been Found and they had put that up to let everyone know the missing animal had been found!

When I was little I used to believe that Earwigs really lived in your ears and that was where they came from. I would get parinoid if I felt something in my ear (probably just an itch), and would be very cautious playing in the grass.

My brother and I were once in the supermarket. My mom asked if we wanted cantillope. My brother responded, brightly "Lions eat Cantillope!"
It took a while to explain to my mom that he had misheard The Lion King: Lions eat Antillope, not Cantillope!

When I was 8 I liked the show Courage the Cowardly Dog and in one episode there was an evil monster mole and in one episode there was an evil talking monster gerbil. Watching those episodes made me fear gerbils and moles. Back then when I was afraid of something even the mention of it would scare me, and the other second graders were very amused by my fear of two animals just because of a cartoon. So they would try to scare me by saying "mole" all the time and one of the books in the classroom had a huge picture of a gerbil in it and they would shove the picture in my face and they would talk about moles and gerbils all the time. Then that summer I became obsessed with a video game that had a mole in it. I thought the mole was cool and it became my favorite character in the video game, and that stopped my fear of moles, and my fear of gerbils stopped at the same time my fear of moles stopped. Of course when school started again I had to go tell all of the mean kids who tortured me with moles and gerbils last year that I wasn't afraid of them anymore so they could SHUT UP.

This one's not mine but my fiance's

We were driving by a crosswalk in the middle of November. We have the ones that make a chirping sound for the blind

Well, my fiance heard the chirping & said "even with all the snow on the ground, there's still birds out there chirping"
I couldn't help but tell him what that noise really was :)

When I was little I used to believe that all dogs were male, and all cats were female... and when they'd have babies together, and cats would have litters of both puppies and kittens of course.

When I was little, a whale sadly died somewhere along the Delaware River (between Pennsylvania and New Jersey). Well, they buried the whale in the local landfill in Deptford, NJ. Since the landfill is shaped sort of like a whale, I thought the ENTIRE landfill was the whale. I couldn't fathom how the ocean could hold so many HUGE whales. To this day, I get teased everytime we ride by the landfill.

I had a horrible time sleeping every night because I routinely thought there were giant scorpions in our house who came out at night and were bent on eating me as soon as I fell asleep.I felt absolutely sure that these were the mommies and daddies of the actual tiny scorpions in the house. I held the belief until we moved out.

When i was very little i saw a film called "I Heard The Owl Call My Name"...the film was about an old Red Indian custom......namely that if you hear an owl call your name it means you're going to die!! Well!!....naturally being very young I took it all in..especially as right outside my bedroom window was a big oak tree, complete with resident owl hooting away every night. I remember falling asleep to the sound of my little transistor radio every night for months instead of having the bravery of listening to that darned owl!!

This is actually a belief my sister had until a little after she turned 15. normally, she is a very smart person. we also have had birds as pets and tried to breed them. that's why her comment had me rolling on the floor crying, i was laughing so hard. in the most serious voice, she said, "But i thought birds mated through regurgitation!" I thought she was joking at first, but she truly believed it!

my friend once told me that red ants actually eat flesh
i'd believed it and thought that they were eating bits of me from the bites i'd received from the beastly things

I used to believe my nan's dog was a werewolf. I used to tease it with biscuits and it used to try and bite me and then i would run away. Eventually the dog actually bit me and i was sure if a werewolf. I told my nan her dog was a werwolf and she laughed so i thought that the dog would bite her. I was so scared i never teased her again.