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As a child my parents enjoyed reading the Winne the Pooh books.And my favorite stuffed animal was a Kangaroo and baby roo. She was red with a white underside and pouch.As an adult, at the zoo-the first time seeing a live kangaroo:I burst out in front of all the people there - "It is the WRONG color!" I was so disappointed in the natural drab mousy color.I could not believe it!

Lee

when I was 6 years old i use to believe a catfish was half cat one fish.

Anon

I used to believe that if I was nice to animals, they would be able to smell that I was not a predator, and wouldn't hurt me. I used to save spiders and other bugs by catching them and taking them outside. I never killed bugs.
I might have been right. I have yet to be bit/stung/or otherwise injured from an animal, well except a horse stepped on my toe once, but that was an accident.

rach

I used to believe that whenever I heard on the news about a rabid fox or a rabid shunk, that somehow a rabbit and a fox had somehow had babies and they became monsters. Mixing any animal with a rabbit was a dangerous thing.

Stacey

Growing up, I believed (and would point this fact out to everyone - especially vegans) that cows utters would explode if they were not milked.

Anon

i used to believe that white milk came from white cows, chocolate milk came from black cows, and strawberry milk came from pigs.

chris

When I was little, for whatever reason, I was terrified of there being a lion in our basement. My sister got so annoyed with me talking about it, that she told me that if you say something is true seven times, it automatically becomes true, and I had already said six times so I better stop now. Needless to say, I never really talked about lions again.

Anon

I used to believe that cows laid beef, like the way chickens laid eggs

Anon

When I was seven, I saw an episode of Jackie Chan Adventures where Jackie Chan's fictional niece Jade offered a panda her cotton candy which the panda gladly ate. Because of that episode, I thought that cotton candy was a part of a panda's diet and that cotton candy was safe for pandas to eat.

Pandabubba

One time while on a family vacation driving through the mountains we passed several steep cow pastures. The cows all appeared to stand sideways on the steep hills and my brother wanted to know why they didn't face down or uphill. My Dad said it was because they could only face the way that they were born to face because they had shorter legs on one side of their bodies and the cows had to walk all the way around the hill to go up or down because they'd fall if they tried to go straight up or down. All the way through the mountains every trip we'd be on the look-out for falling cows!

Valerie

When I was young the first time I went to the zoo and saw a rhinoceros I thought that it was a type of dinosaur, (the zoo actually had the name spelled Rhinosaurus) so all day I ran around telling people that dinosaurs weren't extinct!

Portia

i used to think that if i was walking through long grass i might somehow find a dead cow. i don't know why it was a cow, or why i was terrified. i only remember that if the thought came into my mind, i would shudder and wouldn't walk through long grass for a long time afterwards.

rose

well after i watched the movie DUMBO (i was about 3) i thought that if you were a small elephant that you really could fly. it was later in life that i found out that they were about 1 ton each, and not able to fly.

Torrie

After watching Dumbo a the age of 3 or 4, I firmly believed that all elephants could fly using their ears.... I was really disappointed when I found the truth!

Jess

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

You remember all those old cartoons where cats would get chased by dogs? This is how it worked in my mind: Cats ate mice, birds, or fish. Mice only ate cheese. Birds ate birdseed. Fish ate eachother. ...And dogs ate cats and bones.
I also had no idea the bones that dogs ate were actually once part of an animal. I knew about people & animals having bones & all that, but it just never occurred to me that it was once part of a living thing.
Furthermore, i thought that when animals got eaten by other animals, they'd just set up camp in the belly that was now their home & eventually escape.

Alejandro

When I saw a picture of someone milking a cow, (with a bucket underneath it) I thought that person was trying to encourage it to pee.

Anon

I used to think that polar bears lived in the sky on the clouds because people always said, 'Way up there' while pointing up to describe where polar bears are.

Hailey

I was convinced by my loving brother that Ivory soap was made from elephant tusks. Because of this I yelled at my mother for trying to buy it one day at the grocery store. She was not pleased

myltlstrwbry

When I was a child we had rats in our attic that always did alot of scurrying around at night. I would lie in bed and think that they must be playing baseball up there. Because it sounded like they were running the bases. I imagined them with little miniature caps and gloves and bats. I had a vivid imagination.

Anon