general

i ueded to believe that animals could talk. So eveytime i would say something bad to my dog i would be terrified that he would say something back.

Solim Cervantes

I used to think that the reindeer was just a made-up animal used for the story of Santa and holiday cheer. I only found out differently when I went to a Christmas store with my dad and they had real reindeer on show.

Stupid

On my ninth birthday, I was eating cake in the kitchen with my friends when my mom asked me to come outside for a minute. As soon as I got out the door, I was astonished to see a real live pony standing in the street in front of my house. I actually believed for a whole two seconds that my parents had gotten me a pony for my birthday. My very first thought was, "Oh! Where will we keep her? Maybe we could build a stable in the backyard and I could ride her to school and . . ."

My mom must've noticed the look on my face because she very quickly informed me that the pony was only rented for an hour. Oh well, we still had fun riding it and it was ALMOST a dream come true.

Amanda M.

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....

st.paul police officer daughter

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!

Anon

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.

No longer afraid of any animals.

I used to think that ponies were young horses. I was embarrasingly old when I discovered the truth.

Al's view of the world

I once asked my Dad why there weren't any unicorns in the world. He told me that Noah had forgotten to put them on his Ark. I believed him until the age of about 12-he doesn't even remember saying it!

jedimia

when i was 6 we went past 2 cows having sex well.......i thought they were giving piggy bak rides!
true story and i never live it down thanks 4 reading! kandina

kandna

Cats said "moo" and cows said "meow."

Anon

When I was little and it was christmas, my aunties christmas tree used to be huge. She told me a squirrel lived in there I was terrified it would bite ne so hid behind the sofa for housrs untill we could go home!!

Adele Rutherford

i used to think that farmers kept animals because they were annimal lovers.......... UNTILL I WAS 16

jeni hall

I used to think that the tags on cows ears were actually earings.

Kelly

Until I was about 13 I thought chipmunks were baby squirrels.

Gina

My dad used to tell us all kinds of silly little fibs, which my sisters and I believed for a very long time. Here is one of my favourites.
He told us that female elephants were called Elephants and males were called Ollyphants.

Skye

When I was younger, I had a fascination with all things farm, particularly chickens. I pestered a family member for one of her chickens, but she wouldn't give me a live one (much to Mom and Dad's relief). Instead, she gave me an egg and told me that if I took really good care of it, it would hatch. Well, I set it up on my bedside table, in a nice padded box and waited. Even after a few weeks had passed, I was still waiting for *MY* chicken to appear. The egg disappeared a few days later (My mom said she threw it out eventually.) If only I had known about the heat needed aspect of hatching eggs!!! I had really wanted a pet chicken. At least the egg never broke!

Silly bird