When I was little my mother told me that it was against the law to kill a ladybug and if I did I would get arrested.
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When I was ten, I visited woman's house and she gave me a chicken's egg from her chicken house for me to keep. I didn't know that eggs had to be fertilized by the rooster in order to hatch. I was excited because I thought that a chickie would hatch from it and I would have my own pet chicken! I cradled it on the car ride home and when I got home, I wrapped it in a blanket, put it in a basket and put it under my homework light to incubate it. Unfortunately, my parents told me that the egg WASN'T going to hatch and that if I left the egg there any longer, it would stink. I really had my hopes up :(.
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I used to believe that from seeing drawings or cartoons of goats eating cans, that they really could eat them.
When i was about 5 i started to belive that if a bird ate a feather that it recently lost it would grow it back in 2-3 days
until i was 7 "and a half" i always tried to feed my pet birds its own feathers
Like alot of people, I thought that the majority of cats were female (except for the occasional male cat). There was something about cats that seemed... I dunno... feminine. That's why whenever I wrote stories where the main character was a cat, I'd always make it female.
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I used to believe that cows mooed out of their ears-because my older sister told me they did.
when i was little i asked my mom what it meant when someone said they were gonna get their dog fixed. She said, "It means the vet cuts off a special part of their pee-pee so they can't make babies." Naturally I thought that the penis of a male animal was just one big thing, with no "special parts". I thought about this for a couple days, and eventually asked my mom, "How do the kitties and doggies pee after their fixed!" She soon explained to me that there were certain parts. lol
I used to think that dogs humped eachother cuz it just was fun, not to make babies. They did it for so long i thought it just felt good to them!
When i was younger i used to believe that there were 2 types of chicken - the ones that run about the farmyard and the one i used to eat!! The sad thing was i used to believe this until i was about 6!!
When I was 4 or 5 I got lice, but for some reason I thought this was a good thing, so I went to school walking around telling everyone proudly that I had lice. I always wondered why they stayed away from me...
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I used to think that cats had sticky stuff on their tongue so they could lap up their milk easier, or so my sister told me!
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Because I knew clothes made of wool sometimes shrank in the wash, I used to assume that sheep shrank when it rained.
When I was little, I thought the buzzing noise that june bugs make was a natural noise that happened when it was hot out. We moved to the coast when I was around 6 and there weren't june bugs, so I figured that's why it was always cold and windy
My grandmother once told me that if you put salt on a bird's tail he couldn't fly, and you could pick him up. I used to run around the yard with a saltshaker chasing robins.
I used to think that whenever you barked and were trying to say something, you had to think it out as you were barking...like loud telepathy.
I used to think that all dogs were boys and all cats were girls
When I was little - my fish kept dying, so my mom bought me invisible fish. She stopped getting me invisible fish when I was maybe 5 or 6. Lots of years later - after I'd forgotten, when I was 15, I remembered while talking about pets we had owned. My friend insisted there was no such thing as invisible fish. It sounds silly - but til I was 15 I thought jelly fish were invisible so I never had a problem believing in invisible fish. I asked my mom (when I was 15) if they were real - and she replied "Of course they were" (with a laugh) That's when I discovered there was no such thing as invisible fish!
***I used to belive that if you barked while you where saying something to a dog, they could understand you. i never really tried it because i felt dumb.
And i also believed that if you just barked that you where saying something to them so by there reaction you could tell if what you said was good or bad.
***I used to believe that if you hurt a bird that anoother bird would get mad and try to attack you
When my daughter was an infant, my stepmother-in-law warned me, "don't let the cat near the baby...cats will put their mouth on a baby's and suck the life out of them." She was completely serious.