With truffles selling for £1,300 a kilo, dogs that can sniff them out are valuable VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/GETTY IMAGESA truffle-hunting dog is back at work after a £5,000 plasma treatment to ease his arthritis. Max, a seven-year-old English springer spaniel, is one of only seven dogs that forage in Scotland’s forests for the luxury fungus, which can sell for £1,300 a kilo. Last year Max sniffed out the country’s rarest truffle, the summer burgundy. Joyce Coupe, 60, his owner from Lasswade, Midlothian, said: “Painkillers only worked for a while. Max had platelet-rich plasma injected into his arthritic joints.

Source: The Times April 15, 2018 23:02 UTC