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I used to believe hampsters were miniature kittens and that when they bit me i would be poisoned.

Dylan McDonald

You know how some people get animal heads mounted on wooden plaques? Well when i was about 5 or 6 my Grampa Jack told me that if you go outside and look on the other side of the wall the rest of the animal is on the other side with their head stuck in the wall. So each time I would go look and of course there was no body and Grampa just said "Didnt you see them? They ran away after you left"

Atalie

I used to believe that when people said, "The straw the broke the camel's back" they were talking about a drinking straw. I kept trying to imagine the biggest straw I could hurting this mighty creature and it still didn't make sense.

Andrea Scher

when I was young, my father used to ask me how it was possible for cows to eat green grass and produce white milk. I never was able to figure it out then. I have asked the same question to my young children and now my young grandchildren. No one has the answer!

Anon

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 used to believe that dandelions roared, and butterflies had butter on their wings.

Adam

When i was 8 i had a pony, and i thought he could understand everythink i said, so when i woz around him i would talk to him nicely and is someone called im a nasty name (e.g. idiot) i would cover his ears!

Rosie Posie

When I was little we lived out in the country. Our house was next to a meadow. One day when I was outside by myself, playing, I saw something in the meadow that scared me. I ran, screaming and crying, to the door... too upset to even get it open. My mom ran to the door, thinking I must be badly hurt by the sound of things. I gasped out "Mom, there's a huge snake, with horns!". She could make little sense of this, but got me inside and calmed me down. When I was calm enough, she had me draw what I had seen. I drew a picture of a deer, lying down in the long grass. In my mind, the only thing with no legs was a snake, and I couldn't see the legs of the deer, only its back and head. Thus, the big snake with horns.

KindraShae

I used to think that bears laid eggs! I always pictured bears sitting on enormous nests, just like chickens.

Cybela

when i was 6, i used to believe that unicorns were just poor horses that mean people had thrown nasty ice cream cones on their forehead. when my mom told me unicorns didn't exist, i told her that there was no such thing as unicorns just mean people. i still believe in unicorns.

skye

I used to think a tiger was a female and a lion was a male... until I remembered Tony the Tiger.

Alysia

When I was about 4 or 5 my cousin who is three years older told me if i said the word "snakes", snakes would attack me.

i didn't say the word "snake" till i was nearly nine.

Jorie

When I was a little girl, I used to believe that when we received a seagull dung we would be lucky. Except that the day I received one on my head it did not bring me any luck. So that now I hate seagulls!

tchikita du 93

When I was about 6, my brother told me that if you threw a stick into a pond, and then waited for it to drift across to the other side, then drift all the way back, then the stick would have a little fish stuck to it. And the name of that kind of fish was a stickleback.

Farino

When I was Little I believed that my pets, being smaller than humans, felt pain more. In fact I had a vague concept that pain increased exponentially the smaller a creature was. Therefore if I flicked the cat in the nose it was the equivalent of a grown man being hit in the face with a brick. So I became very gentle with animals.

Stace

I used to believe that wildlife crossed at wildlife crossing signs...so did my dad when he was young

Sheryl

when i was about three i was deathly afraid of cows. And it didn't help that my older sister collected stuffed cows. Well, i refused to go into our living room after dark because for some reason i was convinced that the cows would come up to the window and moo at me.
did i mention we live in the suburbs and theres not a single cow for miles?
i also used to think that a MooCow was a special breed of cow.

Anon

I used to believe that my Dad could understand what animals were saying.
He has pinhole indentions in front of the top of his ears, and when I asked
him what these were he told me they enabled him to understand what
animals said.

To this day I'm not sure if he was telling the truth.

Anon

I used to believe that bunnies went "eh-eh-eh" just like Bugs Bunny. This is because my mother told me that they did.

Sarah

I used to think apes lived in mongolia, and the girl apes wore pink bows

Christina