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In Dispute: Dog shows up at owner's feet with the neighbor's pet rabbit dead in its mouth. The frantic dogowner washes up the rabbit and sneaks it back into its cage, hoping the neighbors will think it died of natural causes. Neighbors are horrified to find that their rabbit, which had just died and been buried, has reappeared in its cage. |
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In Dispute: Fox (or other animal) frees itself of fleas by immersing itself gradually in water; the fleeing fleas congregate at the last point above the waterline, and are either drowned or induced to retreat to something not a part of the animal's body (which the animal then releases or swims away from, leaving the fleas behind). |
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In Dispute: Driver hits a wild animal; decides to dress up its body in his/her own coat, or with some accessory (often a Gucci handbag), for a silly photo. The animal recovers and runs away, still wearing the coat. |
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In Dispute: Hunter shoots a deer, stands it up, balances his rifle in/on its antlers, and poses for a photo with it. The deer recovers its senses and runs off with the rifle. |
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True: Armadillos can contract leprosy. |
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In Dispute: Armadillos can spread leprosy to humans. |
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In Dispute: Cow-tipping (pushing over a sleeping cow) has happened. |
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True: Cow-tipping is usually just a bunch of hooey to beguile city kids. |
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Documented: The South American candiru, a small catfish, will swim into the human urethra and spike itself in place. |
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Documented: Fainting goats exist. |
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Documented: Dancing (or spinning) mice exist. |
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Debunked: Guinea pigs' eyes fall out if you hold them up by their tails. |
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Documented: Guinea pigs have tails. |
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In Dispute: Horse (or cow) falls through bottom of moving trailer; unknowing driver keeps going, grinding the animal's legs to stumps on the road below. |
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In Dispute: Sea otter, newly released after $50K Exxon Valdez (or other oil spill) clean-up, is immediately eaten by an orca (killer whale). |
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Documented: Rats cannot vomit. |
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Debunked: There are alligators inhabiting the sewers of New York City. |
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Documented: Alligators were once found in the sewers of New York City. |
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True: Sewer rats or other animals can come into the house and bite one's behind while on the potty. |
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True: Litter from released balloons can choke and kill wildlife (especially marine animals). |
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Debunked: [Domesticated] turkeys are so dumb, they'll drown if they're out in the rain. |
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In Dispute: Trapper ties dynamite to a coyote and releases it; the coyote runs under his car/house. |
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Tb: In WW2, Russians fed dogs under tanks, then released them in battle with anti-tank explosives having an antenna-like trigger on their backs.Dogs ran under wrong ones, German tanks didn't smell like Russian tanks. Most Russian tanks were diesel, most German ones weren't.German high command counters by spreading rabies rumors, encouraging soldiers to shoot every dog they see. |
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Debunked: Tourist returns from Mexico with a new dog, a little Chihuahua-like thing. It turns out to be a rat.
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In Dispute: Baby elephant escapes from circus; sits on a Volkswagen Beetle, denting it badly. The police later stop the car's owner and want to know what caused the dents; not believing the explanation, they assume the car was in an unreported accident and hilarity ensues. |
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Debunked: A snake (usually venomous) is accidentally sewn into a coat (usually foreign-made), and bites a customer trying on the coat in a store. |
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Documented: Certain tribes of Japanese macaques learned to wash their food in the sea. |
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In Dispute: The University of Toronto had a research subject called "Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey", who breathed through a regulator while swimming and was monitored by a computer (to study the effects of different gas mixtures); she died when a field-service engineer interfered with her hardware. |
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Documented: Rat(s) eat face of child while child is near adult in poor side of town. (TBR) |
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Documented: People have been killed by large constricting snakes (not boa constrictors, though). |
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Impossible: Cowboy dies of a sudden, unexplained affliction. Son inherits his boots; the first time he puts them on (years later), he drops dead. Investigation reveals a rattlesnake fang penetrating the sole of the boot; the snake bit and killed the father, its fang broke off in the boot, and later when the son put the boot on the fang "bit" him too, killing him. |
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True: Dead rattlesnakes can bite. |
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Debunked: Electric shock (taser, stun-gun, car battery) neutralizes snake venom. |
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Impossible: Cats and rabbits hybridize to produce "cabbits". |
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Documented: Some species do hybridize and even produce fertile offspring. |
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Debunked: Child playing in the ball pit at a fast-food restaurant discovers a nest of venomous snakes and is badly bitten. |
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Documented: Child falls into gorilla enclosure at the zoo and is injured; instead of harming it the gorilla stands guard until the child is rescued. |
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In Dispute: Mrs. O'Leary's cow started the great Chicago fire of 1871. |
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Documented: Frogs, fish, and other critters (usually aquatic) occasionally fall in numbers from the sky. |
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Unknown: Old/ditzy woman puts dog in microwave to dry it out- it dies gruesome death/lives to bark again. |
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Documented: Cruel people and other weirdos will microwave pets. This is not a surprise. |
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Debunked: A Doberman chokes on fingers that it bit off burglar hidden in closet. |
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Debunked: Plastic/glass water bottles on lawn prevent dogs urinating in the area. ["Lawn Order in New Zealand (and elsewhere)" in CBA] |
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Debunked: The scent of wolf dung terrifies dogs, so disposal by zoos is regulated. |
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Documented: Cats can carry a parasite (toxoplasmosis) which is esp.dangerous to fetuses. |
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Documented: Aspirin is very bad for cats (slow removal of salicyates from their bodies). |
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Tb: Dog gets shock from phone line, urinates, phone rings! |
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Debunked: Woman's cat dies. She puts it in a shopping bag/box to take it to the country for burial. On the way, she stops at a store and puts the bag down. She turns around and bag is shoplifted. |
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F: Cat steals some dinner, turns up dead, guests' stomachs pumped; but cat had been run over by neighbor and posed, so as not to ruin dinner party. |
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Debunked: Firemen rescue old lady's cat from tree. She invites them for tea. They run over cat when they leave. |
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Debunked: Evil researchers drop cats out of highrises to see how they fall. |
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Documented: Cats land on their feet, except when falling from a great height, when they "parachute" instead; this means they can survive a very long fall. |
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Documented: The same is apparently not true for dogs. |
