A hard road to recovery lies ahead for one little girl after she's attacked by a pit bull inside a neighbor's home.

It happened in Bowling Green at Lee Pointe Apartments.

The girl spent the entire Tuesday morning in surgery at Kosair Children's Hospital.

The little girl is six-year-old Elisa Fannin.

Her grandmother says she's now in stable condition after undergoing extensive surgery to her face.

The family says Elisa was playing at a friends house when things went terribly wrong.

"She looked at me with those eyes, and I just couldn't take it," said Elisa Skaggs, the grandmother of Elisa Fannin.

It's been a tough day for the family of six-year-old Elisa Fannin.

"Her eyes were just shallow like she wasn't even there," Skaggs said.

Elisa Skaggs hasn't left Kosair Children's Hospital since her granddaughter was attacked at Lee Pointe Apartments by a pit bull.

"She was screaming and some gentleman from outside the apartments came rushing in and got the dog off of her. He grabbed a towel and held her face together," Skaggs said.

Police say the six-year-old was inside Erica Cline's apartment, playing with Cline's daughter.

That's where police say Fannin went to the bathroom and when she opened the door, the dog attacked.

"There was a big chunk taken out of her face and from the corner of her lip. It took a big chunk out of her jaw," Skaggs said.

The dog is now here at the Bowling Green - Warren County Humane Society where's it's being quarantined.

Officials there call "human error" a leading cause of these dog attacks.

"Our advice to any pet owner is to never put a child in a situation with any animal, whether it be a small dog or a big dog where you don't know how that animal is going to react with that child," said Lorri Hare, executive director of the Bowling Green - Warren County Humane Society,

Hare says in 2008, the same dog was picked up by Bowling Green Animal Control.

Now a year later, a six-year-old girl is suffering the consequences of that dog's attack.

"My baby was laying there and I couldn't hold her, I couldn't grip her and tell her everything was going to be okay," Skaggs said. "All I could do was touch her hand and say it's going to be alright, we're going to make it, everything's going to be there."

Erica Cline told police she had only been watching the dog at the time and only took her eyes off the kids for a minute when she heard the dog attacking.

The dog's owner, Ray Lane, declined to talk to us Tuesday afternoon.

Cline couldn't be reached for comment.