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sheep were wooly pigs
CJ
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When I was small my mother told me that if you pick up a guinea pig by its tail its eyes would fall out. I spent many hours crying about the poor guinea pigs which I loved. I was quite old, maybe about 13 when I was told they don't have tails.
sharon
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I used to believe that when the lady on the talking clock said 'At the first stroke', that she was in fact stroking a big white rabbit that she had on her lap.
Anon
my daughter used to think that sheep that were grazing on steep hills had two legs shorter than the other to help them balance! She also believed (her dad told her this one) that all babies were born boys and if you wanted a girl you had to put them in a freezer and then there willies would drop off!!
debbie
I used to believe that welsh rabbits were made of cheese (welsh rarebit)
Glenn
i used to think that all animals were made in factories!
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I and a number of my friends were told by a teacher in primary school that Haggis were small sheep-like creatures which lived in Scotland. She went on to elaborate that Haggis' right legs were shorter than their left legs and so they lived on steep hills and only moved anti-clockwise around the hill. The way to catch one was therefore to run towards it from the opposite direction. It would then try and turn around to flee but, due to the whole leg thing, it would, of course, topple over and roll down the hill, where another person would be waiting to catch it.
Needless to say that, coming from a teacher, I believed this for years.
Rebecca Elliott
my friends older brother convinced her that these rabbit droppings he found were chocolate drops. She still, twenty years down the line, cringes at the memory of the taste of these chocolate droppings.
waif
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I used to believe that DoorMice lived in your doors and that they would burrow through it into the house, leaving a small hole in the door.
Phill
I used to believe, as a child, that horses were male cows.
Martin Taylor
I used to believe that a bull in a china shop meant a bull in a take away. I mean wot's that gotta do wiv going in feet first ?
And that was the image I carried in my head, this great big bull being chased around by Chinese cooks in a takeaway.
Tee
Gibbon king PhD
Gibbonage
I told my eldest daughter when she was 2 that horses drove horse floats, she believed it until she was 8 and we drove past one and she saw the car towing the float.
kat
When I was about 7 my next door neighbour told me that the way to find out the sex of a goldfish was that its tummy went pink when it died!!
Lisa Love
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When I was younger I used to belive that bats were imaginary.
This was because the only place I had ever seen them was in Scooby Doo cartoons!
I was actually mid-teens before I realised that they were real.
The only way I found out was by watching a wildlife documentry on TV, I was very disappointed when I saw them because I had always imagined them to be the size of a seagull!!
Sarah H
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Always thought until I was 6 that you milked a cow by pumping it's tail up and down. Saw a toy one and that's how it worked.Still remember how hurt I felt by laughter when I mentioned this first time I saw a cow being milked. That was 48 years ago
Liz
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When I was a kid, we'd sometimes drive through the countryside and see large round bales of hay. My parents told us they were turds left by giant rabbits, and of course all three of us believed that. I had my kids believing it for a while, too.
Marla
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When i was little, i used to think that the electicity sub-stations had lions in them, and that was why they were dangerous. i thought that it just said "DANGER - ELECTRICITY!" so that little kids didn't get frightened! Dumb i know but hey, give me a break i was 6!
wee jen
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I used to believe that unicorns were real creatures. I thought they were just another type of horse.
I knew the phrase about "room to swing a cat" was just a saying about enough space...but we immigrated to NZ from San Francisco when I was in my 30's and went farming. Imagine my surprise when the vet told me the best way to make a newborn lamb breathe after a difficult assisted birth, was to pick it up by the hind legs and swing it up and over in a circle. Imagine how I felt when it worked! I was a ballet dancer...transplanted to being an ovine midwife and had a steep learning curve.
BUT we knew a Kiwi butcher who really thought ewes had one more rib than wethers....great powers of observation...the amazing thing was he wasn't just trying to kid the Yanks.
Ms C. Dawson
My uncle Bruce always told me that Welsh sheep can stand straight on steep hills because they have two legs shorter than the others.
I'm sure it must have been high school biology lessons when the truth hit me...!!!
Rachel
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