Ah, we definitely do have Brown Recluses, here in Saint Louis. I remember an article in the newspaper last year informing everyone of them and stories of the people who had been bitten here in Saint Louis. We never go up in the attic here and have only once since we moved in, last July and my mother won't let me go up there in fear of the Brown Recluses. Ah, I should at least be allowed to go up there to check. Just the other night, we had to kill a spider that we believed to be a BLACK WIDOW, on Louie's cage. (The Tokay Gecko.) And last night, we had to kill a spider that looked like a baby BLACK WIDOW. So, I'd definitely say we have a spider problem.

We really don't like getting the house sprayed, considering last time we did, a while back in Georgia, one of our cats DIED due to the Orkin/Orkan people spraying that crap in the house. Then they totally denied it. She was perfectly fine until they came. So now, we just pretty much spray outside the house.

I will definitely be telling her to go to the store to buy some insect killers... I seriously don't want anyone getting bitten by a poisonous spider..... especially the dogs or cats.