Searching for the delicacy is a perilous pursuit, especially for the dogs who dig
“This massacre must end!” Belardo Bravi shouted in anguish.
Truffle hunting is a tradition often imagined as an upper-class past time, Italy’s answer to fox hunting, and has inspired luxury tourism “experiences,” museums and films. “There are hundreds of dogs killed a year,” said Tomassetti, who is also the honorary president of the Lazio region’s truffle hunter association, which he said had angered locals by successfully fighting the town’s attempts to prevent outsiders from prospecting its hills for black gold. “It happens all over Italy.
On January 7th, Martina Ercoli and her family took a nature hike on Mount Simbruini with their year-and-a-half old chocolate Labrador, Brando. He ate a poisoned hot dog and died in her brother’s arms. “The truffle hunters strike again,” she said locals had told her. Two days later, she mourned the loss on Facebook, blaming “these criminals, presumably people who hunt truffles and spread poisonous morsels to kill each others’ dogs in war”, drawing unwanted attention on the small town.
A truffle found by Bella, a Lagotto Romagnolo, a breed prized for its skill at finding the fungal delicacy, in woods near Camerata Nuova, Italy. Photograph: Stephanie Gengotti/New York Times He had a hunch that the culprit was a truffle hunter who knew where not to let his dogs sniff. His colleague, Ettore Maceroni, theorised that a hunter had worked the area for a few days and then dropped poison to kill off the competition. They mulled stopping cars on the mountain road to search glove compartments and trunks for poison hot dogs. Neither was optimistic about catching the killer.
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