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My dad tricked me, my brothers and my sister into thinking that cows were all carnivorous and that they weren't really eating grass, they were searching for small animals under the ground.
becky
I used to believe that zebras were like strange horses with stripes.
Fraser Allonby
I thought that the reason there weren't any unicorns was because they had all been driven into the sea (due to Noah forgetting them or an evil wizard, I never could decide which) and had become Narwhals, which are a type of whale with a sharp unicorn like horn on top of their head that I found in my National Geographic book of animals.
It was a strange fusion of ideas, but hey, the europeans were fooled by narwhal horns for years and counted them among religious artifacts.
Rebecca
... ... Ponies AREN'T baby horses? Er.
Oops.
Rabbitlord
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When I was little my mom told me that little animals used to live in the shells we found on the beach. I wanted one of those miniature giraffes and elephants so bad!
Erica
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While making bread, I asked what a yeast was. My mother replied that it was a small gerbil-like creature found in the woods.
For 11 fruitless years I searched nature books for a picture of one...
rachael
my grandpa used to tell my sister that cows standing on hills were called "hill cows" and their legs on one side were shorter than the other. she still says that when she sees them
angel
when I was young my aunt would tell me she rode an elaphant to school. since she collected them and they were everywhere in her house, i believed it. bless her soul.
angel
My dad had me believing that if cows were laying down, it was going to rain, because cows only liked to eat dry food.
"But dad, there's not a cloud in the sky."
I thought ponies were baby horses until I was in my 20's. A very bright little girl I was babysitting corrected me. We laughed really hard about it. She was kind enough not to make fun of me.
Bonnie
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I used to think animals led the same kind of lives as us humans. Dad going to work, babies going to school etc, going to the pub at weekends, that kind of thing. Imagine my disappointment when I looked inside a birdhouse and seeing nothing but straw instead of little chairs and a daddy bird reading his newspaper.
Helen Yates (UK)
When i was younger I had some gerbles, named Fredy and Jummpy!!! Well one day Fredy ate Jummpy, and my older brother and I took the gerbles to the feild behind our house and dumpped them out! On the way back to the house my brother looked at me and said "You know Fredy will come back as big as you one day and eat you cause you forgot to feed them"!!!! Well for about 3 years i belived him and sleeped with my mom and dad so Fready couldnt get me!!!!
Becky
I remember believing as a child that horses and cows were the same species;
the horse was the male, and the cow was the female.
Harley
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Cats go miaow, dogs go woof, rabbits go fuh, fuh, fuh! This is said with the front teeth over the bottom lip. I believed this to be true until I was 13. My little brother used to have to go to speech therepy, and to get him to say his f's, rabbit impressions were used. duh!!!!!
feezer the chiropractor
my cousin told me that when roosters went cock a doodle he was mating another hen so he was having an orgasm. so when we went to stay in cornwall for a holiday i was in hysterics whenever i heard the noise
Farmer fred and george,and john the paedophile
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For some reason, cows all seem to face the same way when standing in a field (honest - you look!). I used to believe that this was because they all pointed to magnetic north. Odd child...
Amanda
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My dad, who has since passed away, believed up until his 30s that a donkey was just a horse with long ears.
He also believed (because my uncle told him this) that there was a special breed of "hillside cows" with one set of legs (on either the left or right side) shorter than the other, so that they could stand straight on hills.
But if you put them on level ground, they could only go around at a tilt, and in circles.
Daddy's Girl
I used to believe that if an animal bit you seven time you would catch rabies from it.
Gwilym
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When I was a child I used to believe that roosters laid jelly beans. I would spend several weeks every summer with my uncle on the farm. Every morning he would go to the chicken coop before I got up and put jelly beans in the roosters nest. It was my job to collect the rooster eggs for the the Jelly Bean Factory. He would collect them in a jar until it was time for me to go home and then he would pay me my commission for the beans, usually 25 cents. A lot of money in the 50’s. I believed that roosters laid jellybeans until I was 11 or 12.
Linda D
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I used to believe that monkeys were related to fish as they both have mouths!
Quako
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