In this podcast episode we talk to Karen Drummond from New Zealand about her Truffle hunting experiences. Truffles are the most valuable fungus in the world … so having a dog that sniffs it out is not too bad. In fact, European white truffles can sell for as much as $3600 a pound making it one of the most expensive foods in the world! Karen shares her stories from working with three different dogs, Ollie (Sydney Silkie x Maltese), Indigo (Cocker Spaniel) and Haggis (Springer Spaniel). We also briefly touch on her experience using TAG teaching and hear about how she used this novel training technique to learn archery. Enjoy 🙂
KAREN DRUMMOND
Karen is the founder of the New Zealand based dog training venture called learning about dogs. Learning about dogs started all the way back in 2003 and has been growing ever since. Karen started of doing occasional training classes and importing educational and training resource to New Zealand. Over time this has grown in scope with Karen now being instrumental in organising educational seminars in New Zealand, bringing over international key note speakers with the likes of Dr. Susan Friedman, Teresa Mckenon, Dr. Sophia Yin and Grisha Stewart to name a few. In 2011 Karen started training her first dog to truffle hunt and found something that she is deeply passionate about. To quote Karen directly from her LinkedIn page …
“A great experience when working a truffle dog through the truffière (truffle farm). Watching my dogs individually carrying out scent work around each tree searching for the scent which will give them their reward is like poetry in motion.”
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CLICK HERE to be taken to the TAG teaching website mentioned in this podcast.
CLICK HERE to learn more about the Truffle Dog Company who Karen works for.
The link to learn more about the truffle dog company does not work
Thanks Rose I have just sent a email to chase this up … the website does seem to be down though … I will let you know how I get on.