Truffle searching with dogs Man, although able to recognize the plants hosting truffles,cannot localize the exact position of this precius "tubero”. So, without the help of a capable dog with excepional sense of smell, he would have to sistematically sieve the ground with a tool seroiusly damaging the the truffle bearing patch of land. Being very docile, and thanks to the special friendship and co-operation with his trifulao,the dog is the best animal for truffle searching ,even if at times the animal instict may take over. It happens for example that in the presence of game or if you are working with a male dog in an area where there are female dogs in heat,the dog might get distracted from his searching job. It might also happen that at times,although the dog has been able to localize the truffle ,it may hesitate to start the “raspata”, namely starting to dig the ground showing the trifulao the exact spot the truffle is hidden. Certain breeds of dogs,such as Setter and Pointer or other cross breeds deriving from these, are particularly fast during the search and often get out of contol, or it might happen that they may not sniff the weak smell of the truffles of the area. Young trifulao, given the growing interest , not only gastronomic, of tourism towards truffles have put aside their secretive nature , organize beautiful truffle searching walks with dogs in the woods of the Langhe.