Truffle hunters in Italy are poisoning their competitors' dogs with snail bait in a war for the 'black gold' that goes for up to $5,000 per pound
reported one vet in the town of Alba treats between eight and 10 poisoned truffle dogs per year, though the actual number of cases is likely much higher and sometimes impacts family dogs — not just those in search of the truffles.
Martina Ercoli's chocolate lab, Brando, was killed earlier this month after she said he took a"poisoned bite" from the ground. The dog died in Ercoli's brother's arms within half an hour. Shethat the Italian police told her he was the third dog that week to be poisoned by"these criminals, presumably people who hunt truffles and spread poisonous morsels to kill each others' dogs in war.
A group of truffle hunters wearing camouflage searched the area where Brando was poisoned, hoping to rid the brush of leftover poison. Among them was Antonio Morasca, who toldabout the death of his own dog, Thor, who this month also ate a bit of poisoned hot dog that had rolled under his car. "I took it out of his mouth, but he ran off — he loved to run off — and got another one in his mouth," Morasca told."He started trembling. We got him back to the town, and he started foaming. We made him eat salt to vomit, but the whites of his eyes had turned red. His legs stretched out, and he became rigid. He was dead before we got to the clinic. A half an hour."
Truffle hunter Jean-Luc Monteillet shows a black truffle found by one of his dogs during a search through the oaks of the Domaine of Montine in Grignan, southern France on December 23, 2022.
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