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A woman was assaulted and the puppy she was holding was stolen Wednesday evening as she waited for her husband and the new owner of the dog to return from a cash machine. 

The victim said two men came to her home on the 2600 block of California Street with the intention of buying one of her Rottweiler puppies, but the woman told them the one she was holding was already sold. 

One of the two suspects snatched the puppy from her arms, said Berkeley Police Capt. Bobby Miller, and struck her in the face with a closed fist and then they fled from her home with the Rottweiler puppy. 

The suspects are described as African-American males, one of them about 24 years old, 6 feet tall, 180 pounds, wearing a red Fubu shirt with the number 05 in white lettering. The other bears the same description except he was wearing blue jeans, a jean jacket, a white shirt and a gray hat with ear flaps.