He spots his own reflection in the water. Thinking that this is another dog, with another piece of meat, he decides that he wants both pieces of meat. However, in opening his mouth to growl at his ...

The cockerel tricks the fox in his turn, by saying that his porter will let him in at the bottom of the tree. The porter is, of course, the dog, who scares the fox away ...

In the absence of verifiable accounts, the classicist Robin Waterfield writes in the introduction to his lively and colloquial translation of the fables, “Aesop ... in a dog-eat-dog world ...