Ayme Truffle, The delicious truffles of France

The "cavage"  in French

Or the "truffle search"

The truffle search is very difficult because it exists no mechanic means that allows to find the truffle and nothing, or quite nothing shows the truffles presence. For this reason man appeals , among other things, to the dog’s sense of smell.  

Dogs only choose the ripe truffles without touching the others.... astonishing.

It is quite symbolic that the dog’s nose ( in French: „la truffe du chien) bears confusing similarities to the Tuber Melanosporum. 

This two „truffles“ are destined for meeting each other.

Le plaisir de caver :
The dog explores the soil against the wind, with its nose on the ground. Suddenly it smells a ripe and perfumed truffle. It does not dig it up but marks the place with its paw. It is his master who digs up very cautiously the black diamond with a little hoe. Satisfied, the dog accepts a modest compensation that consists of a piece of bread, a fragment of biscuit with the aroma of the truffle that it discovered just before.
  And the search continues with great enthousiasm and approval.
Le dressage  :

It is essential to train the dogs.


One training method is to mix the perfume of the truffle with pieces of meat and to bury this mixture deeper and deeper.

The dog has to be taught that, for getting a compensation, it is sufficient to scratch slightly the soil at the place where it discovered the truffle.

I Of course there are trainers who are specialized, but at our „domaine“ it is us who train our dogs

 
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