animals

I was always scared to kill any bug because I thought that when you died you'd have to live the life of everything you ever had killed. I always imagined how much it would suck having to be squised, and that was motivation enough.

I had always called "hummingbirds" "honeybirds", because they ate the nectar (which I thought was honey) from the flowers. I called them that, despite my mother correcting me every time, for years and years, until I learned how to read and finally saw it spelled out.

I was six years old. While my grandfather and uncle were having an argument about money, just then their elderly dachshund yawned, making a noise that sounded like the word "money." All conversation stopped, and everyone stared at the dog. Finally my grandmother commented, "That dog is getting more human every day." This led me to belive that dogs tuned into people as they got old.

When I was young, my grandmother told me that dogs attracted lightning. It was her way of keeping wet dogs off the front porch. I believed this for years, it almost seems plausible now.

When I was a kid, my dad and I used to fish a lot. One day we were driving down the interstate and there was a retention pond by an off-ramp. I asked him if there were any fish in that pond and he said there were. I then asked him how fish got into ponds and he told me that a bird flies by and drops them in. It made perfect sense to me at the time, and I believed this until I was about 19 years old.

When I was younger, I knew how male cats and dogs were neutered. However, I couldn't think of how they spayed female cats and dogs.

Being a girl myself, I knew girls had vaginas and boobs, I though female animals had them too, I knew that they couldn't cut off someones vagina, so I though that when a female animal was spayed, they just cut off its boobs.

I wondered what boobs had to do with reproduction..but it made more sense to me at the time.

My dad remembers me asking him this question: "How do they get the cows to stand still while they cut the meat off?"

I guess I had believed that cows, sheep, and pigs where kind of like fruit trees, where you'd take a bit off and let it grow back.

When I was a little kid (like 4 or 5) my dad raised pigs. About once a year the pigs would be picked up and taken to away. I could never figure out where these pigs were being taken to. One day I asked my dad "where do the pigs go when the farmer comes and picks them up?" My father kind of stunned by the question immediatly said "the pigs are going to camp".

You'd think that I'd be scared for life and never want to go to any camp. I'm 20 now and every time I go to a camp or something like that it makes me think "am I gonna get back from this?"

When I was a child, my uncle (who is 6 years older than me) told me that his hamsters and fish were really baby lions and pirahna's, so I was petrified to feed them cause they would eat off my arm. It wasn't until my Mom realized that I was afraid to go to the pet aisle with her to buy his pets food that I was told the truth.

Ladybugs are deadly. I was told this by my brother, who, days after, put a hand full of them down my shirt while walking home from school (I was 6 at the time). To this day (I'm now 21), I still have a phobia.

When i was 9 i was told that butterflies are called this because their wings are made of butter.
For a while i believed this until i licked one and it didn't taste like butter.

I don't know if it is particularly funny, but when i was about 5 i thought that cats and dogs where the same animals, that dogs where the boys and cats where the girls. I based this assumption on my sisters nickname (kitty) and the fact that we would fight non-stop from morning to night (and i was a boy)

When I was a kid, I convinced one of my friends that the powder on a moths wing was deadly poisonous. I knew that if you touch a moths wings the powder would rub off and the moth wouldn't be able to fly, and I told him this and he didn't care... so I told him that it was poisonous and would kill him.

When I was in kindergarten, my friend ate some sunflower seeds out of a bag of bird seed. For about a month afterward, she was convinced that she was going to turn into a bird.

One day in class, a 17 year old friend of mine saw a picture of a tiger and said "OOO, look, it's Leo" (Leo is our local university's LION mascot). We thought he was joking so we laughed hysterically. Well, it turns out that when he was litle, his brother told him that tigers are the females and lions are the males of the same species. Needless to say, he still hears about it.

I used to, when I was about 5, believe that flamingoes only had one leg. I thought that, to fly, they would hop really fast on that one leg and then try to fly. I didn't learn this until many yrs later. I still get teased about it.

I used to think I was part cat because I always crawl up the steps on all fours. I would always imitate my cat's meows and curl up into a ball on the couch when I was tired. I stopped acting like a cat but I still crawl up the stairs everyday. (I'm 14)

I used to believe that chickens (and other birds) had most of their meat on their back beacuse thats how it was always presented, only later on (late teens) did i make the connection between the breast of the chicken being in the same place it is for humans, and that the cooked chickens were placed on their backs.