Strange animal in my house!

[MotherOfBengals]

Growing up in an animal loving family I’ve always taken it for granted that people know their animal species. I currently have 8 house rabbits, and 2 cats.

Yesterday I had a guy out to repair a window and he saw one of my rabbits. He looked at her and asked what kind of animal it was. He genuinely didn’t know, and was amazed when I told him it was a rabbit and said he had no idea they were so big!

Talking to friends, one said a guy she worked with called 999 as he had a hedgehog In his house and didn’t know what was.

Another said she remembered her mum somehow thinking that a hedgehog and a badger were the same size...and another time her mum asked if the pet geckos had lungs 😐

This has made me wonder what other similar stories people have?

Thank you, they are crazy , but the most laid back Bengals I’ve ever known!

I wouldn’t trust them with baby bunnies. My old boy died last year aged 16. He had lived with rabbits all his life. I trusted him - or so I thought. I took a mum and two 1 week old babies in. Unfortunately Mr Bengal didn’t see the babies as rabbits and proudly brought one to me late one night!
My cats are catio cats now due to loosing one to a main road last year, and then his brother trying the same stunts, so the local wildlife gets a reprieve from mine at least.

well yes, why don’t you complain to the owners! 😹😹

Oh, and we had a hedgehog highway through our garden, never saw any, but damn are they noisy when they're mating under your bedroom window.

I remember chatting to a fellow nursery mum back when the dc were little. She told me she’d just found out that unicorns were mythical. She’d reached the age of 25 thinking they were just extinct.

My Aunt and uncle lived in South Africa for a while, and they had a gardener who they knew used to slope off to the bottom of the garden at times to smoke some kind of weed or something. They turned a blind eye because he was a good gardener and his habit didn’t really bother them.

One day my aunt happened to glance out of the window and saw the gardener explode out of the shrubbery at the bottom of the garden and race up to the house, terrified, with his eyes on stalks. She tried to ascertain what was wrong but all he would say was “Demon! Down there! Demon!”

She marched down to the bottom of the garden, armed with a garden fork, and discovered a pangolin. Poor gardener had never seen one before, refused to believe it was a bona fide animal, and would not go down to that part of the garden again.

It was also the last time he smoked whatever it was he’d been smoking 😂

I knew a young woman who thought that sea horses were as big as horses. What a world to live in!

I was just thinking the same thing!