The chanterelle season is here and the gold of the forest has begun to emerge. Picking chanterelles is partly a pleasant activity but also kind to the wallet considering the price in the shop.
If you also have a dog, you can manage to find gold mines with chanterelles. It is possible to teach the dog to sniff the mushroom.
Before you head out into the forest with your dog in search of the forest’s gold, some preparation is needed, write Zoo.
Freshly picked chanterelles. Photo: Martina Holmberg / TT
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Start training at home
Zoo writes that you should start by introducing the scent of the chanterelle to the dog. You can do this by rubbing a chanterelle against a cotton ball or cloth to transfer the scent.
Then you let the dog sniff the cloth while giving a reward, such as candy.
Once your dog has begun to associate the scent with the reward, you are ready for the next step.
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Time to find chanterelles
Now it’s time for the dog to start looking for chanterelles.
Then you can start by placing a chanterelle or the cloth you practiced with earlier, in a visible place. When the dog sniffs it, you give the dog a reward. As the dog learns to find chanterelles, you start hiding them more and more. And voila, you’ve taught your dog to look for chanterelles.
Dog sniffs chanterelles. Photo: FREDRIK PERSSON / TT
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The poison mushroom is the doppelganger of the chanterelle
Another advantage of letting the dog look for the chanterelles is that you reduce the risk of accidentally picking the dangerous chanterelle mushroom. This mushroom is similar to the chanterelle in several ways, but it is very dangerous.
– Chanterelle has yellow ridges on the underside. The ridges are fixed and are part of the hat, they cannot be flipped. Chanterelle has descending, forked, thin and dense orange discs that can be flipped and smeared, have Anne-Karin Mikonaho previously told News24.
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