{"id":7208,"date":"2025-08-02T12:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T17:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T17:59:21","slug":"pigs-rooted-out-of-truffle-hunting-business-by-sick-new-dog-breed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/pigs-rooted-out-of-truffle-hunting-business-by-sick-new-dog-breed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs Rooted Out of Truffle-Hunting Business by Sick New Dog Breed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">October 11, 1804<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAVENNA\u2014Ravenna has been shaken by the emergence of a dog breed designed specifically to hunt truffles. The Lagotto Romagnolo, a medium-sized, curly-coated dog that began as Italy\u2019s own homegrown fowl retriever, has quickly become the choice animal of trufflers across the peninsula, forcing pigs out of what has historically been a swine-dominated industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNow that these dumb dogs are hogging all the truffles, I\u2019m finished,\u201d local boar Mario Roccaforte told the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dealer. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI had the sharpest snout of any porker this side of the Fiumi Uniti, but it\u2019s as good as cassoeula now. Fuhgeddaboudit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local Lagotto Lorenzino Matricardi takes a sunnier view on things. \u201cThe draining of the wetlands pretty much sank duck hunting\u2013we needed a new niche,\u201d he told <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dealer.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cIt\u2019s not our fault that our noses are 50,000 times more sensitive than that of a pig!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNot to mention,\u201d he added conspiratorially, \u201cPig ears are my favorite treat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNow that these dumb dogs are hogging all the truffles, I\u2019m finished,\u201d local boar Mario Roccaforte told the Dealer. \u201cI had the sharpest snout of any porker this side of the Fiumi Uniti, but it\u2019s as good as cassoeula now. Fuhgeddaboudit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}