When Paula Godwin went out for an early morning walk with her tykes on a paved Arizona trail, the only peril she allowed

 she faced was from the searing desert heat. 

 Her puppy dog, Todd, knew else. 

The golden retriever bounded in front of Godwin right before she was about to step on a rattlesnake. 

 “ My idol of a puppy dog Todd saved me, ” she wrote Friday on a Facebook post featuring prints of her injured canine, who took a bite to his face. 

“ He jumped right in front of my leg were I surely would have got bit, ” she continued.” This is what a idol looks like please say a little prayer for my sweet idol. ” 

 Just hours before, Godwin had taken to social media to post a Facebook Live videotape of herself as she started her morning hike. 

“ nothing wanted to come with me it’s too beforehand!” she said. 

 Godwin’s post about her rattlesnake run- heft had been participated more than 940 times and generated further than,000 commentary. 

“ Todd’s doing so well he’s a wonder to me how he’s mending, ” she latterly wrote in a Facebook update.” Just a thank you to all the support Your kindness and support is truly a blessing. ” 

 She latterly posted a print of herself with her canine, furnishing an update on the doggy .