Why we used (and still use) pigs for findinf truffles?

Question

I know nowadays that we mostly use dogs for finding them (I only know that because of Adam Ragusea). I was wondering why we didn’t start by using dogs, if pigs have more chance of eating the truffles and dogs are easier to maintain and train why we didn’t started out by already using them to locate the truffles?

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You can definitely train pigs to not eat the truffles. Pigs are very smart, definitely as smart as dogs, if not smarter.

Also pigs are easier to maintain.