Thanks for the picture! I knew we had those spiders here, and new they sort of looked like that, but now my suscpicions are confimed! I just killed one of those the other night when I got up to use the restroom and the little bugger crawled out of my slippers. I saw it crawling towards the door and I couldn't help but squish it simply because I thought it was poisonous. I wish I didn't have to kill them, but I do not want them around here to bite us. It's kinda screwy for us because we have a large field behind us.


I remember last year when we took Mystic to the vets, the vet there was telling us that they had two cats that died from a brown recluse bite. And then there are the people here that refuse to believe that we have them here, even if the thing is starring them right in the face!


Once when I took the train to California, there was lady sitting next to the me who had been bitten by a BRspider. She showed me the scar on her leg, and it was HUGE! She said she got it when she went camping and it got so infected and she almost lost her leg. How terrible sad.