An elderly Omaha woman wants something done about pit bulls after she and her dog were attacked, leaving her on crutches and her pet in stitches.

Eighty-year-old Dorothy Lanoha is angry. "I think they should take the dog and put it to sleep.” She’s also afraid. "I don’t wanna go outside in my front yard, it’s just traumatized me." And she wants some answers. "Why don’t they do something? I find out now there’s another one, two doors up from me."

Dorothy’s dog Shadow and her neighbor’s dog were attacked by a pit bull last week while Dorothy and her friend were out walking their dogs near South 53rd and N streets.

"He drops her dog and comes after mine and three times, he dropped my dog twice and got him three times and bit him. By then we're all screaming and the neighbors, there's like 50 people out and they all come running to help."

Shadow suffered multiple wounds. He's been to the vet and it will take time and money for Shadow to recover. Dorothy is also hurting. Her hip, her ankle and her back were injured during the attack. Dorothy says the pit bull that attacked her and Shadow is still at home with its owners.

Dorothy said it was a horrible moment and many things were going through her mind. "You know what I really was thinking? I was thinking about that little girl that they ripped the back of her head off. I just feel for that little girl, that mother, what she must have went through."

City officials called Dorothy Wednesday afternoon and say they are still gathering information and there is a meeting scheduled next week to discuss a possible pit bull ban.