Could you train your labrador to hunt truffles?

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Nina Roe is a Suffolk-based chef, beekeeper and forager who has always liked truffles. Three years ago, she got a black Labrador puppy named Oscar in the hope of training him as a truffle dog. Early indications were good. “The ideal working dog keeps its head up to observe the field,” says Roe. “But as soon as I got Oscar, he was in the garden sniffing the…