Updated at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday: Revised with an updated condition for the victim and that the dogs involved in the attack were euthanized.

A woman has been hospitalized after she was attacked by four dogs early Sunday in South Dallas.

The woman was walking in her neighborhood around 2 a.m. when the dogs, who belonged to a neighbor, attacked her in the 4300 block of Hamilton Avenue. The woman was bitten numerous times.

A passer-by saw her and called 911. Police said the owner of the dogs helped capture them before Dallas Animal Services arrived and took them into custody.

The dogs — two pit bull terrier mixes, a Queensland heeler mix and a boxer mix — were surrendered by their owner Monday to Dallas Animal Services. The dogs have been euthanized and will be tested for rabies, city officials said.

The woman, identified in a police report as Veronica Yarbough, was taken to a hospital for her injuries. A hospital spokesman said her condition was serious but stable as of Tuesday afternoon.

City officials said 16 citations were issued against the owner of the dogs, including violations for the dogs being loose, as well as not being vaccinated, microchipped or sterilized.

Police said Monday their crimes against persons unit was investigating.

Dallas Animal Services said it also was investigating the attack, which happened about a mile and a half from where a 52-year-old woman was fatally mauled by loose dogs in May 2016.

Antoinette Brown, who was attacked in the 3300 block of Rutledge Street, was bitten more than 100 times and died from her injuries a week later.

Her family said at the time that the dogs attacked her like they were "eating a steak." Neighbors had called the city 11 times before Brown's death to complain about loose, troublesome dogs nearby.

That fatal attack highlighted long-standing loose-dog issues in southern Dallas, where some residents carry blunt objects, such as sticks, to ward off dogs.

After Brown's death, the city commissioned a study on the best ways to get dogs off the streets and brought in new leaders to run Dallas Animal Services.

Under the new leadership, the city began picking up more dogs and cutting down on euthanasia. The department's shelter now takes in about 2,000 dogs a month.

Since Brown's death, the department has added 13 animal control officers and filed charges of serious bodily injury 12 times for animal attacks. The city said it is working with its Dangerous Dog Task Force to strengthen laws and penalties for animal-related offenses.

This month, the U.S. Postal Service announced that Dallas had the eighth-highest number of dog attacks on postal service workers last year with 40 bites in 2017. Nationally, 6,244 postal workers were attacked by dogs in 2017, which is about 500 fewer than the year before.

In January, the Dallas Marshal's Office and Dallas Animal Services urged residents to resolve outstanding animal-related warrants for offenses like tethered or loose animals.

At the time, interim City Marshal Paul Hansen said Dallas has more than 10,000 outstanding animal-related warrants. The area with the highest concentration of those warrants was the ZIP code 75217, which encompasses southeast Dallas and Pleasant Grove.

A dog attack in progress should be reported by calling 911 immediately, Dallas Animal Services says.

Anyone bitten or scratched by an animal should report the incident by calling 311. Animal Services will investigate the incident and quarantine the dog if the attack broke skin.

Residents can voice their concerns at a joint meeting of the Dangerous Dog Task Force and Dallas Animal Services at 3:30 p.m. April 24 at Dallas City Hall.

Staff writer Naheed Rajwani contributed to this report.

CORRECTION, 12:40 p.m. April 17, 2018: An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to the four dogs involved in the attack as pit bulls, citing incorrect information provided by authorities. Two are pit bull terrier mixes, another is a Queensland heeler mix and the fourth is a boxer mix.