It was Easter Sunday. Aleksandra Kagan walked next door to her neighbors to give them some dessert. When the door opened, a pit bull launched out and latched on to the nine year old girl.

"It was very scary. When you hit his head, he starts biting tighter and tighter," Kagan says.

Aleksandra was rushed to the hospital and has 25 stitches to show for it.

"I might have a scar," she adds.

The dog that's behind that scar is named Frankie. He lived next door.

"He's under socialized, he hasn't been rabies vaccinated or licensed," says Thomas J. O'Connor Animal Shelter representative Barbara Hays says.

That's the problem. Hayes says while Frankie could have been a great pet, he was unaccustomed to strangers and that could be the reason he went on the attack

"This was simply a little girl knocking on a door. The dog took that as a threat and acted very inappropriately," Hays says.

Aleksandra is up and about playing with her own dog Neon, but says for the time being, she's wary of other animals.

"I might get over it in a few years, but it's not really that big of a deal once I get the stitches out," Kagan says.

Doctors say Kagan will be ok.

The pit bull most likely won't return to it's owners, due to him being unlicensed and improperly vaccinated.