A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained has added an unpaid trainee. cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing; works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing: The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment: He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find. He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. thinks he’s on the team, the handler said. “He is emphatically not on the team dog “He