The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Cock, the Dog and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 252 in the Perry Index. Although it has similarities with other fables where a predator flatters a bird, such as The Fox and the Crow and Chanticleer and the Fox, in this one the cock is the victor rather than victim. There are also Eastern variants of this story. In the Greek story, a cock and a dog go on a journey together. At night, the cock roosts in a tree while the dog curls up at
Reynard the Fox a highly sophisticated development of Reynardian material as part of his "Morall Fabillis" in the sections known as "The Talking of the Tod". Hans van Ghetelen, a printer of Incunabula in Lübeck printed an early German version called "Reinke de Vos" in 1498. It was translated to Latin and other languages, which made the tale popular across Europe. Reynard is also referenced in the Middle English poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" during the third hunt. Tybalt in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is named after the cat in Reynard the Fox (and is called 'Prince of Cats' by Mercutio