The foundation
Obedience (all the basics - sit, stay, recall, down, place), leash manners, and household rules. Clients have included families with Yorkies and families with 180-pound working dogs.
In-home dog training · Grapevine, Southlake, Colleyville and nearby
He does not train the dog for you.
He trains you to run the dog.
Obedience, leash manners, and household rules first. Remediation of aggression and high-risk power-breed cases when the house is already on the edge.
Dogs only get about one-seventh of our years. Use them.
The trainer
Tim Frazier
Owner, behaviorist, trainer
Tim has spent 40 years teaching dogs and owners how to live together without chaos. He started as Greenville, Texas’s police K9 officer in 1987 after graduating near the top of his class at Adlerhorst International K9 Academy with his Belgian Malinois partner, Bo—criminal apprehension, tracking, and narcotics detection. He later left a corporate IT career in 2015 to do this full time, because waiting until retirement to do the work he actually wanted was a waste of years the dogs don’t have.
He has lived with Mastiffs, Malinois, pit bulls, a Belgian Groenendael, shepherds, and a long line of shelter mixes. The point of the work is simple: a well-trained dog is less likely to be surrendered, abused, or put down.
What he is known for
A fast bond. Cases other trainers call unfixable.
He is known for a fast, practical bond with most dogs, and the willingness to take cases other trainers call unfixable.
The specialty
Remediation of human- and animal-directed aggression, resource guarding, and high-risk power-breed cases. Many of those dogs were on a path to a shelter or worse.
How the work is sold
No packages. No prepaid hours.
Stop when the house is working.
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Tim does not train the dog for you and hand it back only to have it revert to it's prior behavior in your environment.
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He trains you to run the dog, in your home, at the end of your leash.
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Pay per session. No contracts.
Appointments
Book a weekday in-home session.
Weekdays, typically 6:00 AM–6:00 PM. One-hour sessions. Request a time on the booking page or email tim@grapevinek9.com if you need to book on a weekend.
Between visits
Training notes live on Substack.
Training notes, how-tos, and longer pieces stay on the Grapevine K9 Substack for anyone who wants them between visits.