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When I was little (5) my brothers friend (15) told me that warts were baby frogs and everytime I would see his friend I would ask him if they have hatched yet because I wanted one.

Alice

When i was younger i used to believe that there were 2 types of chicken - the ones that run about the farmyard and the one i used to eat!! The sad thing was i used to believe this until i was about 6!!

goldie8907

I once asked my Dad why there weren't any unicorns in the world. He told me that Noah had forgotten to put them on his Ark. I believed him until the age of about 12-he doesn't even remember saying it!

jedimia

When I was nine we went on holday to Cornwall. Near to our campsite was 'The Dolphin Riding School'. I was convinced (helped on by my older brother) that this was where you could learn to ride a dolphin........

Anon

When I was 4 or 5, my cousins had me absolutely convinced that if you touched a fish's eye with your finger, the eyeball would explode.

J

Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.

Isabel

I used to believe that sometimes animals would be people who had magically transformed themselves so that they could spy on other people, and they would think like people but just couldn't talk. I still get nervous whenever my dogs stare at me while I'm changing - what if it's really a person???

Anon

when i was about 7 after watching pinocchio i believed i could pet my fish like gepetto it didnt work so well...

shyla

When I was 5 or 7 years old, i used to believe that lions are made in a factory.

Douglas j

I used to believe that being a tiger would be a job like plumber or layer. It was my dream job.

Dom

When I was little I believed that kangaroos were a kind of a dinosaur, because I had a toy dinosaur that looked like a kangaroo.

Mikey

I used to believe that birds had some kind of super power to withstand electricity when they stood on power lines.

Derek

childhood camping trips to scotland often ended with my younger brother running across the fields after haggis, those cute little critters indigenous to the country. anything small, furry and fast was automatically classified as such, despite any rabbit-like tendencies in the creature itself. it was my mam and dad who encouraged this, the cruel sods.

doran

I always thought that cows were the opposite of horses, cats were the opposite of dogs, frogs the opposite of lizards, lions the opposite of tigers. This worked very well for me in helping me put my perception of the animal world in order, but when I came acroos animals that I couldn't pigeon hole in this way it filled me with a real feeling of unease...

Scott

when i was five or six i had a goldfish called goldfish and my brother had the MASSIVE goldfish well one day i thought they were hungry so thought what do goldfish eat? and i came up with milk, i went into the kitchen asked my mom to pour me a cup of milk and instead of drinkin it i dumped it in the bowl. my mother came in and asked what i was doing i said that they told me they wanted some milk. my brother came home from school and bawled his eyes out since then i haven't been able to cope with fish.

Save_The_Penguins!!!

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 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 parents used to tell me that cows on hills had shorter legs on one side so that they could stand up straight. Cows born on the opposite side of the hill would have shorter legs on the other side of their body. I remember thinking that the cows on one side of the hill could just walk around to the other side, but then they would be facing the wrong way and you could tell they really belonged on the other side.

Barbara

I used to believe that you could keep a chicken egg (that you bought) warm, and it would hatch!

Anon

I used to believe that since pokemonm(i was obsessed with them) said their names when i was 5 i thought that animals would say their names too but my dog was the only one that didnt and was very very special because of that.i stopped beliveing this when i met my coousins dogs Boompa and Emma.

cows say moo not cow