Category Archives: Truffle Dogs
Truffle Surveys for 2024 – Full Schedule
This is the Current Truffle Survey schedule for all regions for the 2024 season. With new teams it means an increase of truffle surveys for some areas. Feel free to contact us if you need any further assistance.
Professional Development
Keeping up to date with the changes within the Scent Work industry is really important for our organsation to provide current advice and the best methods for training our dogs. Although COVID-19 appeared in 2020 it gave the opportunity to … Continue reading
New Producers
What a fabulous Sunday…all growers visited had truffle production. At the second growers we located truffles under four new trees so now they have seve that are production, so exciting. At the next grower, we were able to congratulate them … Continue reading
Truffle Dog Services on Radio NZ CountryLife
We were interviewed at the end of August at Peter Hodges and Sue Arnolds Matangi Truffiere by Carol Stiles from Radio NZ on truffle hunting. I was a little concerned about how hunting with truffle dogs will come across on … Continue reading
2019 Season…that was
Review of 2019 Truffle Season Each truffle season I wonder if it will surpass the previous truffle season and I am never disappointed. In the 2019 season Indi found five new producers: 1 x Bay of Plenty 2 x Hawkes … Continue reading
Truffle Dogs in the News…
At the beginning of the season Laurie and Toff Mylchreest were interviewed for the Waitomo News and mentioned that Truffle Dog Services completed truffle searches for them. This led to us also being interviewed for the Waitomo News where we … Continue reading
Truffles on Kai Safari – Aug 2019
In June 2018 Tony and Jo Carr contacted me to provide truffle hunting services during the filming of their property for the programme Kai Safari focusing on foods from Rotorua. Sonia Gray interviewed Tony and Jo Carr, and then they … Continue reading
2017 Season So Far…
We have had an amazing 2017 season, and we are only half way through. Waikato We have located more truffles for a client who found his first in the 2016 season. Indy found both Perigord and Borchii at this property. … Continue reading
Truffle Dog Services
About Our Truffle Dogs My name is Karen and I have been involved with dogs for 15+ years in a variety of different roles. But this is the most exciting and rewarding of them all. There is nothing more rewarding … Continue reading