It’s only been in recent times that he’s branched out into truffle canine work, but he finds the rules are much the identical. Charles Lefevre, president and founder of recent World Truffieres and organizer of the annual Oregon Truffle Festival, points out multiple reasons why canine have surpassed pigs. Charles Lefevre and the Oregon Truffle Festival hold an annual truffle canine seminar every January (there’s 20 open slots this year, up from 12 when the seminar started in 2008), where trainers like Glenn Martyn and Deb Walker will take Fido by the paces. Then there’s the very fact that you just are literally SHARING this with someone else.