Edi Munneke dog trainer
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Edi Munneke had the enviable record, still unbeaten, of having the only dog to score 39 perfect obedience scores in Rusty her Golden. At 80 she decided to stop judging because the bending and walking was slowing her down.. She wrote the Dog World Obedience column for 32 years. (1968-1995.) She is now 97. As a schoolteacher Edi was well aware of learning theory and realized the theory difference between people and dogs.
Edi helped shape the UKC’s obedience rules and judged the very first UKC obedience trial. For years she was sent the AKC obedience regulations to check over before they went to press. "I spent my life making things right," Edi said. A life long hard worker she was more interested in the results than the accolades. She often worked in the background and feels she was responsible for the AKC finally permitting woman to become delegates. The Ladies Kennel Association even had a male delegate. Edi threatened to sue and viola! A female delegate appeared. "I made them behave." Edi says of the AKC. |
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Mrs. Munneke has written for Front and Finish and for seven years was the Golden Retriever Club of America’s obedience columnist. . Edi was elected president of the Golden Retriever Club of America on the same day another president was sworn in: Gerald Ford, August 9,1974. Ford replaced Nixon when Nixon resigned. She managed to get elected more times than the unelected President Ford. The GRCA has two year terms for president. Ford did three years and Edi did four. Total elections won for President: Edi 2, Gerald 0. Edi Munneke was secretary of the Dog Writers Association of America for ten years. Separate and apart from that task she re-wrote the DWAA constitution because she knew it was in shambles.
She is a Life Member of the DWAA Mrs. Munneke is also a Life Member of the Cincinnati Obedience Training Club that she joined in 1954 and the Golden Retriever Club of America.
Last Updated: Sunday, July 19, 2009
