Chewed on or mauled, what’s the difference? She caught him in the garage, took him down while I grabbed my 1911. I let her exercise her jaws on his leg while I held him at gunpoint for the police. He took a few stitches and later tried to sue me, but the judge literally laughed it out of court.
She was a well trained dog, and let go of him when I told her to.
Good that your dog followed command. That is not the situation in a mauling though. In those situations, commands go unheeded. The owners invariably say, I don’t understand, my pitbull would not listen to my commands. Time bombs do not listen to commands when they go off.
Glad you are safe and the person did not prevail in court. Terrible how messed up things are that a burglar can even get a court date over something like that.