A classic from PartTimeDragons. Three wolves with glowing red eyes corner a terrified man in the woods. They’re about to eat him. Then they stop. “Wait,” they say. “Before we eat you, help us find our ball.”
Cut to the man happily running alongside his three new wolf friends, having located the lost chew toy. Friendship achieved.
It’s Cerberus for the modern age. The three-headed hound of Hades, guardian of the Underworld, reduced to three good boys who just want their squeaky toy back. The ancient Greeks would be horrified. We think it’s adorable.
Gorgocutie says: In Greek mythology, Cerberus was the fearsome three-headed dog who guarded the gates of the Underworld, preventing the dead from leaving and the living from entering prematurely. Heracles wrestled him as his 12th labour. Orpheus sang him to sleep. But nowhere in the ancient texts does it mention Cerberus losing his tennis ball behind the sofa. Modern mythology > ancient mythology. Fight me.
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