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A dog was stabbed to death and another was seriously injured in a Monday afternoon attack that has Sonoma police baffled and an East Sonoma neighborhood upset.

According to Sonoma police Sgt. Bret Sackett, Sonoma police officers were called to the residence of Mike and Jeanette Teves in the 500 block of Este Madera Drive at 2 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 1, on a report that someone had attacked their dogs. Officers arrived to find that the Teves' 1-year old pug Lucy had died from a stab wound and their 2-year-old Boston terrier Roxy was suffering from a stab wound to the chest, Sackett said.

The dog were taken to the veterinarian and it was determined that someone used a knife with a one-inch wide blade that was at least seven inches long, Sackett said. The attack occurred in a small window of time between 1:15 and 2 p.m., Jeanette Teves said. Teves left her home at 1:15 p.m. to go shopping in Sonoma and had put her dogs inside the house.

Teves left the back door of the home open and the alarm system off, she said, because she was expecting workers to show up and didn't know when they would arrive. There is no dog door in the home.

The suspect is believed to have let the dogs out into the fenced backyard where they were stabbed. The following day, soft dog food with what is suspected to be rat poison was discovered in a small pile in the back yard, Sackett said. There were small green pellets that had been inserted into the food.

"We are perusing a couple of angles right now," Sackett said. "But our big plea to the general community is to please come forward with any information you may have."

There is a reward for information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of the persons responsible for the attack, Teves said.

Anyone with information about the attack is asked to call the Sonoma Police Department at 996-3602.

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