About Us

We are a husband-and-wife dog training team and the owners of Some Minor Dog Training LLC. For the last three years, we’ve worked behind the scenes fostering, rehabilitating, and supporting dogs in Central Florida who needed a little extra help.

Today, through Some Minor Dog Rehab, we partner with local Humane Societies to offer free and discounted training and post-adoption support for select dogs—because lasting placements require more than just good intentions.

Rehabilitation With Purpose

Our Goals

Our rehabilitation program is designed with long-term outcomes in mind: To help dogs develop neutrality, confidence, and coping skills:

To create dogs who can integrate safely and predictably into daily life
To support adopters with honest assessments, not wishful thinking
To reduce failed adoptions and return-to-shelter rates
To advocate for dogs by placing them in appropriate, sustainable homes

We believe that ethical rehabilitation means meeting dogs where they are, not forcing them into expectations they are not ready for.

Partnership & Responsibility

We work closely with shelters, rescues, and adopters to ensure each dog’s placement is intentional and supported. Rehabilitation does not end at adoption; education, follow-up, and realistic expectations are a vital part of our process.

Not every dog is suited for every home, and we see that truth as a form of advocacy, not limitation.

At Some Minor Dog Rehab, our work centers on dogs who need time, structure, and understanding'; not pressure to perform or be rushed into placement.

We specialize in the rehabilitation of dogs who may be overlooked due to behavioral challenges, lack of foundational training, environmental stress from shelter/rescue life or difficult past experiences. Our goal is not simply to make dogs “easier,” but to help them develop emotional stability, reliable communication, and the skills needed to succeed in a real home. Every dog in our program is treated as an individual.

We focus on building clarity through structured routines, clear expectations, and consistent handling. Dogs are taught how to navigate the world calmly and confidently, rather than being managed through avoidance or suppression. This approach allows us to identify each dog’s true needs, strengths, and limitations—information that is critical for long-term success.

Our Current Partners

As of January 2026

Southeast Volusia Humane Society - Since Oct, 2025

Do you want to help, but don’t know how?

We could never be able to provide these life-save services without the help of people like you!

It doesn’t seem like much, but every interaction helps us!

Your interactions on social media help boost our posts, you sharing our donation post -or any post- help others see the important work we are doing.

This is a fast and FREE way to help us get seen by the public, but not only that it helps encourage others to donate their time to help these amazing dogs as well.

We love having the amazing opportunity to help these select at-risk dogs, but we know that it’s not something everyone has the time, money or skill to do and that is okay! Simply sharing our page, sharing the stories of the dogs that we are working with is enough!

Donating is another great way to help!

We have a lot of GREAT donation options to help us help these amazing dogs. We have multiple donation options:

You can order from our Amazon Wish List. This give you the power to choose exactly how your donation is used, and your donation is sent directly to us.
You can donate directly to us vis Cashapp, allowing us to utilize your donation where it is most needed.
Below is more information about both of these options.
Thank you for considering helping these special dogs and their future families!

Amazon Wish List

Here is an Amazon Wish List that we have put together with treats, food, toys, chews as well as enrichment tools and supplies needed to help give these dogs the care they need while in our programs. Some of these supplied get put into “Adoption Care Packages” to help set the dogs in our program up for success in their new homes, others help the dogs while they are in our care or in our program.

Some of the enrichment goodies are also given to dogs still currently in shelters/rescues, and foster homes, to continue to provide support where we can.

While we have this great list, we also have the list open so that similar items can also be sent that are not on our list.

Direct Donations

Direct donations can be made through Cashapp:

https://cash.app/$SomeMinorDogRehab

How your donation helps

Immediate Help

$15 — Evaluation for an at-risk shelter dog

$20 — One in-shelter training session

$30 — One public training session

Continued Support

$100 — up to 8 free support classes for a dog in need

$150–$250 — Sponsor an adopted dog with post-adoption training support

Life-Changing Support

$100+ — Veterinary care support (applied where needed most)

$300–$1,500 — Sponsor an at-risk dog (full training + post adoption in-home lessons)

All donations are applied where they are most needed to support training, care, and successful placements.