Anyone on here have any experience finding truffles. I have none but I do a lot of mushroom hunting with the family and have decided to train our dog to find them. Scent training the dog was way easier than I thought. He picked it up right away inside. Tell him to go find and he’ll search all over the house and find the truffle pretty quick. I just started to move him outside and he seems to be picking it up pretty fast. I think my truffle is too far past it’s prime though I need to buy another. I’m hoping to link up with someone that has experience truffling with a dog to get some knowledge from. Or if anyone knows a well known truffle area that I can bring him to train. Also I think it would be cool to have a mushroom sub thread on here but that might just be me.
Truffles
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Always wanted too. Just too many obligations and not enough time. I read to look for squirrel dig holes then rake the area around them, in the pine straw duff. Your store bought truffle might be a different scent then the local truffles I think they are a different species then the French ones? My goal this year is morels, every spring I say this is the year I'm going to make an effort for them.
I'd be interested in looking for truffles myself but imagine that it would probably be pretty tough without a dog. I do enjoy mushroom hunting. I like and primarily look for boletes, chanterelles and morels.
on Amazon Prime or Starz; might be some good information there? https://www.amazon.com/Truffle-Hunt...deo&sprefix=Truffle+,instant-video,371&sr=1-1
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Steelhead
Definitely watch "Pig," starring Nicolas Cage, as a recluse who searches for truffles in PNW forests with his pig. His best movie in a long time.
Mark Melton
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Here's some general information.
We started to find our first morels last year. That was super cool. Once you find them and see what they are growing in it gets easier.
I haven't heard about that. I think the bar is pretty low for Cage to have a new best movie. I can't even remember the last movie i saw him in that wasn't horrible. Con Air? The Rock? Maybe gone in 60 seconds?
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Steelhead
How about "Leaving Las Vegas"? He was Oscar-great in that very depressing movie.
"Raising Arizona" ("Her womb was a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase," one of the greatest movie lines ever!)
Moonstruck
Joe.
I meant to say i couldn't think of any of his recent stuff that has been good. He has lots of 80s, and 90 hits. I also forgot about Kick-ass. that was a recent good one he was in.
We thought it was one of his worst!
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Steelhead
For sure, the quality of his performances in recent years has been spotty.
I would hope it wouldn’t get that competitive out here. I don’t think then Oregon white is quite as desirable.
I did a similar training with my dog years ago. Used a local black truffle in a little container with holes punched through it. Hid it around the house and then in the yard. He really got good at finding it and it was super fun for both of us. It was finally time to take him to the woods for the real thing. I picked out a patch of Doug fir that seemed ideal from what I know about the habitat you’re looking for. Let the dog out of the car and realized that I forgot to bring the truffle container. Well needless to say he did not respond to my commands of “go find the truffle” and immediately got squirrel brain instead. That was the last time we did anything truffle related but I wish that I would have kept at it. Mostly for the fun of the hunt.
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