Learn from nationally recognized K9 expertise

Instruction shaped by real-world K9 deployment, operational decision-making, and courtroom accountability.

August 25–28, 2025
Lily Strassberg
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Lily Strassberg, K9 Trainer & Instructor, DiagNose Israel

About
Lily Strassberg

Lily is a trainer at Grassroots K9 where she raises and develops started malinois and labradors for single and dual purpose work for police departments in the US and Canada, and trains pet obedience in a board and train format. Previously, Lily worked for Ford K9, raising and training narcotic, firearm, explosive, and bed bug detection dogs and handlers, and at the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF), puppy raising and assisting in the training of live find and human remains disaster search dogs. While at SDF, she also managed the Fit to Work conditioning program for the dogs in training.

Lily received her masters in Cognitive and Behavioral Science from Auburn University. She holds two bachelor of science degrees in Animal Behavior and Psychology with a Neuroscience focus. Lily has worked in Duke’s Canine Cognition and Auburn’s Comparative Cognition laboratories conducting assessments on populations of explosive detection dogs at a variety of ages to examine predictive profiles of performance. Lily has interned with Simon Prins in the Netherlands, Mike Nezbeth in Canada, and teaches canine cognition and detection fundamentals seminars in the US, Canada, and Europe.

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Lily Strassberg
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HITS K9

Join national-scale K9 education designed to strengthen deployment judgment, legal defensibility, and long-term operational performance.

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HITS brings together prosecutors, scientists, federal advisors, and operational trainers whose instruction reflects real-world deployment and courtroom scrutiny.

Don Blair

Owner
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Canine Intelligence Academy
Veteran K9 trainer specializing in detection fieldwork, point-to-point, and quartering exercises for operational detection teams.
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Dr. John Waterhouse

Founder
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Hero Canines
Veterinarian focused on working dog medicine, rehabilitation, and injury prevention for law enforcement and military K9 teams.
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Dr. Kenneth Furton

Executive Director
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Global Forensic and Justice Center
Provost Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor; Executive Director of the Global Forensic and Justice Center and a world-leading scholar in detection-dog science.
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