Tim Frazier – Owner, Behaviorist, and Trainer
Tim has trained dogs and dog owners as a favorite pastime for 30 years and had always desired to do it full time. In 1988 he was selected as the Greenville, Texas, police department’s sole K9 officer and began patrolling the streets after completing police K9 training in apprehension and narcotics detection with his Belgian Malinois police dog, Bo.
Together Tim and Bo captured violent criminals, successfully recovered evidence and contraband via scent searches and tracking, and conducted community outreach programs.
Bo was a wonderful dog which could subdue a fleeing armed robber one night on patrol and be safely petted and hugged by a group of kindergartners the next morning as a PR mascot and educational asset for the police department.
Tim moved from law enforcement to an information technology career in 1995 in the interest of providing his family a better income to support his two children. He climbed the corporate ladder over the next few years but continued to work with dogs and their owners in his spare time, honing his skills and discovering new methods of solving behavioral problems and correcting dangerous challenges with dogs that had become aggressive toward people, other dogs, and/or animals.
Over the last few years in his information technology career Tim developed an increasing conviction that his role in that field was contributing far too much to corporate executives’ gluttony and wealthy investors while they exported American jobs to other countries.
In September of 2015 When he was asked to terminate some of his staff simply in the interest of more profit and less production quality, he refused. Tim had been saying for years that when he retired he was going to train dogs full time, and at that moment, frustrated with his current occupation he asked himself, “Why am I waiting until I retire to do what I love most?” The answer was obvious to him, and he resigned and converted his part time work in training dogs into the full time business of Grapevine K9, LLC.
What sometimes appears to be a setback is often accompanied by opportunity.
Since then Tim has been available for appointments seven days a week from 6:30 AM to 8:30 PM to work with dogs and owners and create better lives, more secure homes, and harmonious pet loving families.
Tim knows that well trained dogs are at a lower risk of ending up in a shelter, being abused, or abandoned. He has a love for these versatile animals, and a passion to save them from abuse and abandonment. The satisfaction he gets from solving the conflicts of dogs and owners far outweighs his former much more “comfortable” income.
Tim and his wife, Robin, have owned numerous pets over their lifetimes and currently have two pit bulls (Moose and Wallace), and a Belgian Sheep Dog (Noah). Among their previous pets which have passed on were:
An American Mastiff
Four Pit Bulls
Several German Shepherds
Two Schnauzers
A border Collie
A Rottweiler
A Dachschund
A Beagle
…and a host of others with questionable lineage, but they were all beloved family members.