TRUFFLE HUNTING

Team Truffle Hunter

Stef has spent years teaching scent detection, training dogs on all sorts of different odours for all sorts of different projects, most of them considerably more serious than sniffing out an underground fungus. After enough of that kind of work, she decided it was time for something more relaxed, and truffle hunting won. As she puts it herself, "Even if you never find a single truffle when you're out hunting, a day spent in the woods with your dog is never a day wasted."

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The Louvel Canines are proven truffle hunters, and if you think you might have truffles growing on your land, our dogs, working under the Team Truffle Hunter banner, can come and find out for you. It works the other way too. If you already know you have truffles and simply need a reliable pair of paws to collect them, that is exactly what we do. We are discreet, honest, and happy to provide references if you would like them, and because the dogs are trained not to eat or damage what they find, you can trust that whatever comes out of the ground makes it to you.

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If you would rather learn to do this yourself, we run online theory based one to one sessions and webinars covering truffle ecology, responsible hunting practice, and the groundwork for training your own dog to find truffles, so whether you want one afternoon of pointers or the full foundations to build from, we have got you covered.

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For a proper look at who does the actual sniffing, our dogs page introduces the Team Truffle Hunter regulars, and if you want the day to day, from muddy boots to genuine finds, that is what the Team Truffle Hunter Instagram is for.