MG Dog Training, LLC

MG Dog Training, LLC Serving the south shore of Massachusetts. Contact info:

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08/30/2026

Pup cup contest!

Luna learning place, Domino helping Hank with socializing, Roxy learning to walk on a loose leash ❤️
08/29/2026

Luna learning place, Domino helping Hank with socializing, Roxy learning to walk on a loose leash ❤️

Photo catch up!
08/24/2026

Photo catch up!

08/24/2026

Excerpt from my latest blog, Link to the full post is in the comments:

When I evaluate a dog's social skills, two of the things I'm looking for above almost everything else are:

● Can this dog tell another dog “no” without taking it too far?
● Can this dog be told “no” by another dog without retaliating?

Those are relationship skills. They only get built through actual interaction, ideally the kind where a person is close enough to guide it and step in if a correction starts to escalate past what it needs to be. A dog sitting on a bench watching the park never has to navigate a moment of conflict, never has to read another dog's boundary and back off, never has to set a boundary of its own and hold it appropriately. That dog might come away from the outing more comfortable with noise and movement and unfamiliar dogs and people at a distance. It won't come away better at actually engaging with other dogs, because it was never involved in any real social interaction.

That's the piece environmental habituation simply cannot do, no matter how many hours of exposure a dog gets. This is not a knock on habituation. It's just not what habituation is for.

when we call habituation socialization, we're not just being loose with language. We're quietly acting as if structured socialization, and the specific things it builds, don't really exist as their own category of skill. That's a bigger loss than a vocabulary slip. It shapes how trainers think about what a dog needs, and it shapes what owners come to expect and ask for.

Read to whole post on my website to understand the full picture.

08/19/2026

Walking lesson with Banx (6mos)
Teaching him how to follow the handler not pull 🙌

Catching up on pics! Milo enjoying freedom, Freddie learning people are not trying to murder his mom, Banx showing off h...
08/19/2026

Catching up on pics! Milo enjoying freedom, Freddie learning people are not trying to murder his mom, Banx showing off his impulse control and leash training, Roxy & Coco started training, Salem getting ready for board/train, Millie learning the leash, and Piper getting some freedom learning recall, Cooper learning down ❤️

08/14/2026

Milo is really digging this band

08/14/2026

Milo practicing walking with the loose leash ❤️

08/13/2026

Cooper learning down ❤️

Milo❤️
08/12/2026

Milo❤️

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