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i used to think it was incredibly silly that people tested people things on animals, animals don't have any use to use lotion or toothpaste ect

Anon

-nursery rhymes-
i used to believe that cows could jump over the moon when I was a kid.

Aloysius

I used 2 belive that boy horses had hairy feet and girls diddn't,thats all thanks 2 my little pony's because the one's with the fluffy feet were allways bigger. The funny thing is I only realised it was'nt true about 3 months ago!!!

Bexi

my mum told me the udders on cows were the cows 'boobies'. so everytime we saw cows i used 2 point and yell out 'LOOK MUM BOOBIES!!!'

megan

When I was little I believed that bears lived underground directly below the barricades that block the street when they are being repaired. I figured out later that I had believed that because my mother had said barricades and heard bear caves.

C.D. McCullough

when i was 6 i was sooooo afraid of horses cuz my brothers told me tht if u got nere 1 theyd try to kill you and eat u and i didnt find out the truth till i was 11

Noah

My mum was reading this book once about praying mantases, and i asked it about them and she said that they were dangeours and would kill u if u went near them, so i was always scared to touch them cause i thought i would get killed, didn't relise she was joking

Anon

Meat-Eating Cows in Nebraska

My sister Marian teased me really bad. She told me one time the cows would eat me!! (I was about 3 or 4 at the time.)

I remember one day when the family was picking sweet corn. The field was in the middle of the pasture, fenced in. The car, a 1954 Ford Ranch Wagon, was parked in the pasture with the tailgate closed. The windowed upper part of the tailgate swung up. They left me in the car and disappeared into the corn field with bushel baskets.

Then the cows came!!! I pulled the hatch down and hid behind the tailgate. Dad came out with a basket of corn, lifted the rear hatch, put the basket in, and went back to the field. HE LEFT THE HATCH UP!!!

I pulled it back down. He came out with another basket, opened the rear hatch, put the basket in, and went back to the field. AND HE LEFT THE HATCH UP AGAIN!!!

I pulled it back down. He came out with another basket, opened the rear hatch, and asked WHY I kept closing it. I simply said, “To keep the cows out.” He said, “Those cows won’t get in the car, leave it open,” and went back to the field. I left it open, I was more afraid of Dad’s discipline than I was of the cows!

Sometime later I was alone in the house, Mom was in the barn casing eggs. (Putting eggs in a egg cases, each case held 30 dozen. We had a LOT of chickens!) The older kids and Dad were doing chores.

THE COWS GOT OUT OF THE CORAL!!! I was terrified!! I looked out of the window and saw them at the bottom of the hill, between me and the barn where Mom was. I started crying, and ducked down under the window, behind the couch. Then I looked out again, saw the cows, and cried harder. This cycle repeated itself until I was almost hysterical. Finally I saw Mom coming to the house. She came in and found me crying. She asked me what the problem was and I said, “The cows are going to eat me!!!!” She said, “No they won’t, they don’t eat people! Where did you get THAT idea?” “Marian told me they would eat me!”

Boy, was Marian in trouble when she got in the house!!

Maybe that is why she later moved to Minnesota!

Hick

Once when my dad had told me that we (as in human beings)were all animals as well, I got scared that I would grow fur and a tail and I refused to go outside unless it was for school and I kept insisting that my parents drop me off at school as if the slightest contact with nature would make me a cat or something.

Adrasteia

I used to believe that alligators lived in a lagoon by me.

The Green Monkey

when i was about 8 me and my best friend found a ickle shrew n decided to keep it as a pet in her room. When later that day we discovered another shrew we thought we were the luckiest kids in the world cos we could have one each. so we set up a little "home" 4 them and went out 4 the day. when we returned we decided to check up on them. Picture the scene: one extremely FAT shrew and half another shrew. 4ever ive been disturbed by it (but it seems 2 entertain my mates)

Katy

In the house I grew up in, there was a grate in the front yard, and I used to think that dolphins lived down there (because I was told alligators lived in sewers). So I took it upon myself the responsibility to 'feed' the 'dolphins' with leaves and garbage and "berries" I found in my neighbour's backyard. I also thought it would be nice for me to talk to them once in awhile so they could have some company.

Then I found out alligators don't live in sewers, either.

That's when I gave up on the dolphins.

LellyT

i live in the desert, and a lot of the mountains here have large caves. when i was a kid my dad used to tell me that wombats lived in the caves. i didnt even know what a wombat was. i figured they were ferrocious animals that could eat a little kid. it wasnt until i was watching the discovery channel when i was a teenager that i learned what a real wombat was. and i do not beleive that they are indigenous to the nevada desert.

nikksta

When I was little I wouldn't give up my pacifier. My mom told me that the baby bunnies that lived in the backyard didnt have a boo (thats what I called it at the time) so i told her that I'd let them use it during the day and they could give it back at night. I believed that's what was happening! Later on, I asked why Bugs Bunny had such big teeth that stuck out. "Because he kept his boo for so long" she said. I took it out of my mouth and never used it again!

bunnyboo

When I was 10, i was very gullible and really afraid of death. My cousin who is the same age as me told me that all squirrls had rabies and that is they got anywhere near me (like 15 feet away) that I would die. One day, I feel off my bike and hurt my leg. I couldn't get up. Then I saw a squirrl coming near me. My cousi then proceeded to tell me that there were squirrls coming at me in all directions. I was so scared because I couldn't even get up and run away. To this day (i'm 17) I am absolutly terrified of squirrls. I still can't get anywhere near them. They should all die.

Anon

When I was younger we lived out in the country and had an abundance of salamanders and frogs. One day I saw a striped frog and had just learned that there was a such thing as poison dart frogs, which looked similar to this particular frog in my yard. I ran in to my mother, screaming that we had a poison dart frog in the yard and that it would kill us all. She told me it was, in fact, a poison dart frog and that I should kill it, just joking around with me and knowing my love of animals (and assuming I wouldn't do it). As much as I hated this idea, I was afraid it would kill my family, so I ran out and stepped on it, twisting around on it to really squish it. Some of the blood gushed up onto the open toe of my clear jelly shoes and I freaked out, believing I was going to die because the blood was on my shoe and could get on my skin. I went inside to tell my mom that I had killed the frog and that I was probably going to die because of saving them. She was flabbergasted that I had done such a thing, but also could barely contain her laughter. She never told me it wasn't a poison dart frog until I was much older, so I thought for the longest time that we had them in our yard...but I never killed another one.

Anon

when i was between the ages 3 and 10 i honestly thought that if u touched a pink flamingo you would turn pink also... i never really came into contact with them, but whenever i saw flamingos in the zoo i would stay as far away from them as possible!

ChArLi