animals

Up to reading these pages I never gave a thought about cockrals and hens mating. Just thought the one doing the laying, did everthing by herself and some eggs hatch and some don't.

OOPS

I convinced my two younger sisters of this one. We were at a chinese restaurant, admiring the huge tropical fish in their fish tank. I told them that they were "moo goos" and if you ordered "Moo Goo Gai Pan", you got to pick out which fish you wanted to eat.

They cried, feeling sorry for the beautiful fishies.

I used to believe that mosquitoes sucked your blood until you died. I told my little brother this when he was six. When he cried i had no idea what he was worried about.

My mum told me it was 'bad' for the cats if I touched them (i.e. pulled their tails and generally hassled them) when they were eating. I was in my 20's before I suddenly realised that it was not going to make my cat ill if I stroked him while he was eating!

i still don't know why earthworms do this, but when i was little it really concerned me--after alot of rain, worms would emerge from the ground and lay almost unmoving in the puddles. thinking they were injured/sick/dying (were they just taking a good soak?), i would open up the "worm hospital" and take steps to save their lives. sometimes i would move them to higher ground; sometimes i would re-bury them; sometimes i would put two close together, thinking they weren't moving because they were lonely.

One time in the colorado countryside, i saw two grasshoppers mating, but not knowing what mating was, i ran to my mom told her that "i saw a two-headed, eight- legged giant grasshopper!"

I remember when I was little and we were at a lake full of dragon flies I got mad and my dad and I told my dad "shut up" He jumped up and said "dont say that or the dragonflies will sow your mouth shut" I believed that for a very long time and one day got curios and told a dragon fly to shut up and ran after I said it. lol

This is actually a friend of mine. Somehow or another as a child she came to the belief that all dogs were boys (male) and all cats were girls (female). Even after a sexual education class she never questioned this until the age of 19 when someone asked her how they could reproduce if each species had just one sex.

When my sister and I were little, our parents told us that spiders were afraid of beds (so that we would still sleep if there was a spider in our bedroom). I distinctly remember standing at the door of my room and making a running jump to get to the bed as fast as I could, because then the spiders wouldn't get me. We believed it for years, and therefore our parents never had to deal with "I can't go into my room, there's a spider there!" It's such a convenient story that I plan on telling it to my kids someday!

I used to believe that all cats were female and all dogs were male.

when i was a kid, i believed that sea monkies were evil because they would drown people that comes near them. i was nervous to go near a big body of water for years.

My brothers kept me from playing with them in the creek near our house by telling me there were creatures called "synthets" there, and that they ate little girls. They proved their existence by showing me a coat of our mother's with a label saying, "Made from synthetic fur."

When I was yournger(5) , I thought that my cat's (named Midnight) penis would wrap around the door at night, because my parents had trichadingiaphobia, ( fear of being locked insided )and told me so to make sure that I feel assured. I believed this until I was 14. Now that I think about it, something like that could never happen. My cat was a girl.

When I was a kid I always thought that those beautiful sweaters, etc. that said "100% Virgin Wool" had to come from virgin sheep. I couldn't quite make the connection of how the wool could possibly change after a sheep had had sex, but at the time it did make sense. I still chuckle to this day when I see "100% Virgin Wool" tags.

My Mum told me snails were diseased whenever I played with them so now I'm still scared of them. Especially when my girlfriend taunts me with them (she likes them)

My dad told me that polyester was made from the fur of a small animal. He said they kept them in pens and killed them by stabbing them in the eye with a needle. I thougt this until we got a set of encyclopedias and I was able to look up polyester and find out that it's a synthetic fabric.