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“别人家的狗狗”能赚钱：为主人挖出价值7500元的松露

It was a cold and rainy morning when Anna Terry made an amazing find on her family's truffle(松露) farm near Deloraine. "It's the biggest truffle that we've ever had here," Ms Terry said. "It weighs 910 grams, which is certainly our record."

Ms Terry said her trainee truffle sniffing dog Poppy made the discovery last week. "Poppy just started digging and didn't stop, then I started to see how big it was," Ms Terry said. "It just kept going and I started to get more and more excited. My dad Tim was at the farm too and I called out to him to come over. He was shocked to see it. He founded Tasmanian Truffles more than 20 years ago and it's one of the biggest he's seen."

Ms Terry said anything over 500 grams was considered a large truffle. "There have been some in Tassie that have been around the 1 kilo mark," she said. "It was a great find for Poppy." Truffle would have been worth $1,500. Ms Terry said there was no way to predict how big a truffle would be when harvesting.

"It's just the luck of the draw really," she said. "Truffles ideally need nice, loose, free draining soil and lots of room to grow, which is clearly what happened here, it got really big." She said the flavour of the record truffle was not affected by its large size. They're not like some oversized vegetables that you see which typically have a bit of a watered-down flavour.

She said the record truffle was one of the last from this year's summer truffle season and it would be nice if she could find a winter truffle that size because of the good consumption in this season. "Typically a truffle of this size would have been sold internationally. They're somewhat of a novelty," Ms Terry said. "Even a restaurant here couldn't have used all of it so I had to cut it up. It will probably all end up in my stomach."