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I live in N. California. I've never seen a recluse here but we do have black widows everywhere. There's another kind of spider...huge and horrible...that looks like it would deliver a nasty bite and it makes its appearance in late summer/fall. It's way too early for the drink I'll need to look up sack spiders. I'm deathly afraid of spiders.
Melissa, he's exercised on our property and walks are confined to the road. Too many foxtails this time of year for our normal nature walk.
I put antibiotic cream on it and the swelling around the edges seems to have come down and the redness is much diminished. The bruised area is slighly larger but doesn't look worse. It's also kind of flaky.
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There's a Prof. at UC Berkeley I think that asks people to bring in brown recluse spiders when they find them. Last time I read about him he said they just about always turn out to be regular wolf spiders. It could be a spider bite and your dog has a different reaction and a higher sensitivity to them then a different dog would.
Duh, I ask where you live and it's right there below your name. Good point Alyssa. The range I gave was the recluses native range. They can be found all over the USA when accidentally relocated by people. Most spider bites heal with no problems and there is a big difference in the way spider bites affect humans and the way they affect animals.
Again, if it doesn't get well on it's own you might want to have a vet look at it. Otherwise it's probably a non issue. The biggest danger from a spider bite in the US is from an allergic reaction but if the dog hasn't shown signs of that in the first 24 hours that's not likely to cause a problem.
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There's another kind of spider...huge and horrible...that looks like it would deliver a nasty bite and it makes its appearance in late summer/fall.
Sounds like a wolf spider. Big and furry right? Take a flashlight out at night and watch their eyes "glow" back at you. It's really just the light reflecting off of their eyes but it sure looks creepy on a big furry spider. Spiders for the most part just creep people out. They are actually very beneficial for keeping pests under control. But a wolf spider can also bite. Most bites from them IME have produced more of a raised welt than anything else. My vote's for a recluse or something similar that tends to produce more of the necrotic tissue type wound. The flakiness is from dead tissue in my opinion. If it's warm to the touch you might consider a vet since there may be more infection then what you're seeing but otherwise I wouldn't really worry about it.
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Nope, not a wolf spider...although seeing one of those would send me right over the edge!
The one I mentioned is nocturnal and lives in webs well off the ground. I literally won't go out of the house after dark from August-October because of these things.
The bite is going away and looks much better. It just really startled me when I first came across it.
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Spiders for the most part just creep people out. They are actually very beneficial for keeping pests under control. But a wolf spider can also bite. Most bites from them IME have produced more of a raised welt than anything else. My vote's for a recluse or something similar that tends to produce more of the necrotic tissue type wound. The flakiness is from dead tissue in my opinion. If it's warm to the touch you might consider a vet since there may be more infection then what you're seeing but otherwise I wouldn't really worry about it.
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