LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A search is underway after a 4-month-old Akita puppy was stolen from a parked Tesla early Monday morning in Las Vegas, despite the car being in "dog mode."

The puppy's owner, Magdalena Kovacheva, is desperately searching for her dog named Xero after someone smashed the window of her rented Tesla and took the puppy while she was briefly inside a grocery store.

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"The window was bashed in. I just went into complete shock," Kovacheva said.

The theft occurred around 3:15 a.m. Monday in a WinCo parking lot off West Washington Avenue in the northwest valley. Kovacheva had left Xero inside the car with Tesla's "dog mode" activate

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