 Joyce Biethan MPT, CPDT has a 12 year history of providing a wide range of dog training services in the Greater Seattle/Metro area.
She is the owner (& CEO, service provider,receptionist, office manager, book-keeper, accountant, and general go-fer) of Cooperative Dog Training in the Vancouver/Portland Metro area.
In Summer of 2007 Joyce decided to move back to her home town area. She had several goals in mind. One was to open a much needed swim center for dogs. Unsinkable Dogs K-9 Warm Water Swim Center is expected to open in late winter 2008. She also wanted to continue with her strongest passions:
- Helping people and their dogs develop cooperative, leadership based relationships
- Teaching the human end of the leash to train the dog end using positive reinforcement
- Help owners understand the need for, & establish management plans as needed, until training & cooperation are achieved.
Joyce has been working with people and their dogs for the last 12 years through Joyce’s Dog Obedience Services Inc. in Seattle WA. Seven years ago she retired from her previous 20-year occupation as a Physical Therapist to work with dog & people partnerships full time.
Joyce has studied and experienced a wide range of dog training techniques and philosophies over the years. Since 2004 she has trained and studied with Dawn Jecs, learning as much as she can about Dawn's "Choose to Heel" foundation as well as advanced training. Joyce wholeheartedly believes that this is the best and most progressive training available in the industry today. She has seen incredible results with her own as well as her students' dogs. She is also an agility student of Jill Crawford, one of the most well know Agility Instructors and AKC judges in the Pacific North West.
Joyce has owned mixed breeds, sporting, toy and herding dogs. Her current pack includes:
- Mick her “Good” dog, an 11 year-young Border Collie with advanced tittles in AKC and UKC Obedience, Rally, Agility, and flyball Teaching the human end of the leash to train the dog end using positive reinforcement
- Rider her 5 year old Belgian Sheepdog who is her "challenging" dog. He has taught her way more than she ever thought she needed to know about dog training! He as led her to believe that the best continuing education for a dog trainer must include ownership and training of a really difficult dog.
- Simon her rescue Silky Terrier who “hit the jackpot” when he came to live with her in Feb. 07.. He is a [nearly] perfect dog, the type that trainers never see because they really don’t need it!
Joyce put a UDX and 6 Dog World Awards on her Novice A Competitive Obedience dog. Ashley, a Golden Retriever who died of cancer at the young age of 4. | 
