how to find the truffle ?

What truffle hunter dogs are used to find truffles?

You will need a faithful friend and there is no more faithful than a dog to find the truffles. All dogs have the ability to find truffles if they are well educated, it will always be better when they are small, this must be a dog that tolerates the cold well and hard work while having a good concentration and does not disperse too much, the ideal educate him as if it were a game and not a job and the performance will be greater.

You must not dig the soil around the tree to avoid damaging the mycorrhizae that give rise to truffles. All dogs have the potential to find truffles, the result depends on the training, the ideal is to train the dog as if he were playing and not working, in this way the result of the search will be much higher.

Lagotto Romagnolo, Italian Espinona, Grifo, Cocker Spaniel or the Labrador for example. The truffle dog can give great satisfaction to those who raise it and, above all, it is very useful for anyone who loves truffles and wants to go hunting for them.

It is very important whatever the dog that it has good resistance to cold and water since the most valued truffles, be it the Alba white truffle or the Perigord black truffle, mature in periods of rain and extreme cold. In Italy the dog that is naturally capable of digging is a water dog that has these characteristics, this is the Lagotto Romagnolo.