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General => Introductions => Topic started by: Phaedra on June 28, 2004, 06:53:10 PM
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I just found this site and registred at once!
I live in Uppsala, Sweden and have a 2 yo blue roan cocker bitch called "Phaedra". She is my 2nd cocker. My blue roan male died in november 2002 at the age of 5 due to trombocytopenia. My first thought was that I would never have a cocker again and certainly not a blue roan, but after two days or so I was reading puppy-ads on the Swedish Cockerclub's web page...and concering blue roans - I like the colour!
Phaedra and I show a little (I'm a beginner!), we've been to obedience class and a field class. Phaedra is on the calm side, doesn't like to run a lot but prefers to stick to me. Retrieving bird's wings however really gets her going and she likes tracking to. Our next course have to be a tracking course.
Me and my husband also have two borzois, three cats and I have two horses: a Norwegian fjordhorse and a doele trotter.
I'm looking forward to cocker discussions!
Anneli
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Hello !
Welcome to COL. It's quite a nice site,isn't it?
I'm just new here,too.
I look forward to chatting to you.
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Hej!
Jag har en svart flicka heter Tia! :lol:
Seriously, I know just a little Swedish :wink:
I hope you make lots of new friends here.
Har det bra! 8)
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Hi Anneli
welcome to COl, its nice to see another scandinavian member. One of my cockers is from Sweden :D .
How fun that you have a doele trotter, they are quite rare in Denmark, but my husband has decided he wants one :roll: :D .
Sarah (DK)
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Welcome Anneli, I hope you enjoy COL :D
I think Phaedra is a lovely name, does it translate into English?
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I worked with a lady called Phaedra in Wolverhampton, Michele :D
Hi Anneli, and welcome to the forum :lol: I think we have some other Swedish member(s), but I cant remember who they are off the top of my head :oops: We definitely do have some members from other parts of Scandinavia - there's Sarah from Denmark who you met, two Ninas from Norway, and Katina from Finland - so I hope you'll feel at home here :D
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Hi and Welcome :D
Hope you enjoy the site!
Lizzy Molly and Evie
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(http://www.hondenhuys.nl/forumsmilies/wave.gif)Hi Anneli welcome to col i hope you enjoy the site. :D
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Hi Anelli :D
Welcome to the forum, we would love to see a pic of your dogs :wink: hope you enjoy the site, you will it very friendly here 8)
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Welcome Anneli :D
I'm sure your animals keep you very busy. Sorry to hear you lost your 5 year old with thrombocytenia - was it an autoimmune problem?
Glad it didn't put you off cockers :lol:
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Hi Anelli and welcome to COL.
Looking forward to chatting with you and looking forward to seeing some photo's.
I also have a blue roan, 13 month and called Piper.
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Hi Anneli,
I'm so sorry to hear that you lost your male so young it must have been so hard for you :(
your blue roan sounds beautiful and her name "Phaedra" is so lovely :wink:
I too have a blue roan, his name is Blue and he's 16 months old I also have a little black and tan - Bailey he is 13 weeks old.
Enjoy the site :D
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I worked with a lady called Phaedra in Wolverhampton, Michele :D
As usual I didn't explain myself very well Mike :roll: :lol: What I meant was, does Phaedra have a meaning that tranlates easily into English?
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Hello Anneli,
Welcome to COL. :D
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I had forgotten to check this post - THANKS EVERYONE for welcoming words!
Michele, "Phaedra" is an English/international spelling (the most common Swedish would probably be "Fedra", which I sometimes use to prevent an "uh?" when I write my dogs name in messages to other Swedes/Scandinavians :lol: ). Phaedra is a person in Greek mythology, the daughter of King Minos and younger sister of Ariadne. Racine made a classic drama about her.
Just by coincidence three of our four first dogs got names from literature/mythology, so after that we decided to give all future dogs such names:
We started up with DAPHNE the komondor (greek/roman mythology), my first cocker's name was FREDMAN (a character in the popular works by Swedish 18th century poet Carl Michael Bellman). We got a male, 6 months old borzoi whose name was Casper. I did not think this was a suitable name for a proud, stylish sighthound, so I changed it to CASPIAN after the prince/king in C.S. Lewis's books about Narnia and the Phaedra came. With her, I had a hard time deciding between "Phaedra" and "Fides", the godess of loyalty in Roman mythology, which I think is a brilliant name for a cocker (=next dog?). Our young borzoi bitch is named LISHKA after a character in a modern opera.
Our second dog was a borzoi called CINDRA, and that seems to be nothing but a series of dog shampoo...well, you can't have everything!
Anneli
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Hi Anneli and WELCOME TO COL.
This is a great site, so many helpful people :D
I have a 10 year old labrador and a 13 week little black and tan cocker called Lottie.
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Thank you Anneli for a wonderful insight into how your dogs were named, I like names that are unusual. :D
Showing my ignorance about Greek Mythology though :oops: (sorry George :D )
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Hehe, Michelle - don't ask me what Phaedra DID, because I don't really remember except for that it wasn't anything nice. But I liked the name, so I just decided to forget all about the character (and succeeded!).
Anneli
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Hi :D
How great to have members from Sweden :D
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Hehe, Michelle - don't ask me what Phaedra DID, because I don't really remember except for that it wasn't anything nice. But I liked the name, so I just decided to forget all about the character (and succeeded!).
Anneli
Anneli, I just did a search on Google and I tell you what, they knew how to live (& die) those ancient Greeks, have a read of this :shock:
Phaedra is best known for her role in Euripides' play, the Hippolytus. The plot follows a pattern of sexual intrigue and betrayal that has parallels in ancient Mediterranean myths, mostly notably, the Biblical account of Joseph and Potiphar's wife.
Phaedra married Theseus who has a son, Hippolytus, from a previous marriage to Antiope. The young Hippolytus, however, angered Aphrodite by shunning her worship and devoting himself entirely to Artemis, the virgin goddess of the hunt. To punish him, Aphrodite compels Phaedra to begin lusting after the young man. At first, she resisted, and sought magic cures for her passions, or at least a noble death. Hippolytus learns of Phaedra's desire for him through Phaedra's nurse and launches into a fierce denunciation of women -- a locus classicus for misogyny.
Out of shame and guilt Phaedra hung herself, but not until she'd left a letter condemning him of trying to rape her. Hipploytus was trapped into silence because he had promised that whatever Phaedra's nurse told him, he would never repeat. Therefore, when confronted by his father he was defenseless. Out of anger Theseus asked Poseidon to punish Hippolytus, which he did. Hippolytus died as Poseidon's bull emerged from the sea frightened his horses. Unfortunately, after it was too late, Artemis revealed the truth to Theseus concerning his son and Phaedra.
In a typical Euripidean deus ex machina, the goddess Artemis is questioned as to why she stood by and allowed her devoted follower to be destroyed. She reminds the chorus that there is an agreement among the gods that the favorites of one divinity can be destroyed by another divinity at will. It is scant consolation that she promises that someday she'll similarly destroy a mortal favorite of Aphrodite in revenge. And so "As flies are to wanton boys, are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport" (Shakespeare, "King Lear").
However, in a different version of this story Hippolytus rejected her advances. Out of spite, she slandered Hippolytus and Theseus had the boy killed. Phaedra ended her own life from remorse over the boy's death for this was not what she intended.