YIKES! Found Brown Recluse in my room last night

[JuicyGirl]

Originally Posted by Tiger's Mom

yikes that must be so scarry Shannon . .we do have quite a bit of spiders but all teeny tiny - I still hate them though but a dollar size I don't think I can be brave enough to even kill it

oh Des... I was and still am scared!!! I had to kill it because I would be soo paranoid about where it was.

[JuicyGirl]

Originally Posted by Sunnie

oh yea, you should see out where I live in the desert in California... brown recluses, scorpions, tarantulas!! centipedes..... oh yea, and very deadly mojave green rattle snakes.. I hate this time of year.. I killed a scorpion in my bed once!!

A scorpion in your bed
How could you not be paranoid with all those creepy crawlers?

[JeanieK]

a brown recluse is nowhere near that big and they have 8 legs.

Chances are what you saw was a giant wolf spider. Freaky but harmless.

[chattiesmom]

Brown Recluse spiders are bad news. I have never seen one in person, but I have seen the damage they can do. Please be careful!

[JuicyGirl]

Originally Posted by JeanieK

a brown recluse is nowhere near that big and they have 8 legs.

Chances are what you saw was a giant wolf spider. Freaky but harmless.

I hope you're right
I've had small wolf spiders before... but nothing compares to the one from last night

[JuicyGirl]

Originally Posted by chattiesmom

Brown Recluse spiders are bad news. I have never seen one in person, but I have seen the damage they can do. Please be careful!

The pictures and the stories i've heard are crazy... I can't believe how harmful they are... right now me and the babies are sleeping upstairs. We have literally taken it over lol

[jrsygal37]

OMG PLEASE watch your Yorkies. A couple of years ago my husband let the girls out to potty. He only left them for like two minutes in our back yard. I went to call them in and got a sick feeling in my stomach. I could see a lump lying in the yard and I screamed. I knew it was Bella. I ran to her, and she was limp. I ran her inside and tried to stand her up and she stood for a second, ran to her red house and fell over and defecated. I called the vet, but since it was 9pm I had to rush her to the emergency ER. Hubby drove and Bella wasn't looking good. I was of course hysterical. The tests showed her liver enzymes were extremely high. We were told that she was either poisoned or she could have a liver shunt. She was two years old at the time - she's now almost 5 yrs. old. She seemed to be coming out of it and they sent her home with us. She spent the next day with our normal vet who did tests etc. Everything came back fine. No liver shunt. He told us that she must have been bitten by a brown recluse spider. Now Bella is a bigger yorkie weighing in at 13 lbs. had she been a small Yorkie she would have died. They are deadly. Elaine

[JuicyGirl]

Originally Posted by jrsygal37

OMG PLEASE watch your Yorkies. A couple of years ago my husband let the girls out to potty. He only left them for like two minutes in our back yard. I went to call them in and got a sick feeling in my stomach. I could see a lump lying in the yard and I screamed. I knew it was Bella. I ran to her, and she was limp. I ran her inside and tried to stand her up and she stood for a second, ran to her red house and fell over and defecated. I called the vet, but since it was 9pm I had to rush her to the emergency ER. Hubby drove and Bella wasn't looking good. I was of course hysterical. The tests showed her liver enzymes were extremely high. We were told that she was either poisoned or she could have a liver shunt. She was two years old at the time - she's now almost 5 yrs. old. She seemed to be coming out of it and they sent her home with us. She spent the next day with our normal vet who did tests etc. Everything came back fine. No liver shunt. He told us that she must have been bitten by a brown recluse spider. Now Bella is a bigger yorkie weighing in at 13 lbs. had she been a small Yorkie she would have died. They are deadly. Elaine

I'm soo sorry... I'm so glad she is ok!!! How long did it take her to recover?That is what I am worried about my Lola (9lbs) and My sis chi (2lbs) sleeps with me...