erode burglars fed food laced with sedatives to the pet dog of an industrialist in erode and looted 45 sovereigns of gold jewellery from his house on sundaythe victim charles of surya nagar in r n puthur near bhavani was in kerala to attend a wedding ceremony with his family when the burglary took place police sources said neighbours who saw the broken door informed police as well as charles who rushed homeaccording to the complaint rs 47000 was also stolen along with goldcharles had left home on friday and was to return after two days the incident must have happened on sunday morning the neighbours had seen the front door intact till saturday night a police officer saidpolice found the pet dog under the influence of the sedative when they arrived at the scene we are trying to zero in on the burglars only some of the gangs sedate dogs before conducting burglary a police officer said