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I can't identify many spiders, but I can tell you to be certain you have had attention for your brown recluse bite.

My brother had one that went untreated. The consequences were horrible. He struggled with an unhealed, large ulcer on his lower leg for about 7 1/2 years until he finally lost it below the knee.

Thanks for the ping, RBA.

For the past three weeks we have been treating one of our older gentlemen Champion Schipperkes ... "Wolf", by common call name -- 12yo this last month. He firsr presented a great deal of swelling on the left side of his head over the side bones of the skull and jaw.

We hot packed the area and within two days all of the skin in about a two by two area had sloughed off and there was a single penetration point in the middle of a softened blackened area of skin. We drained and drained and drained and hot packed and hot packed ... gave antihistamines, antibiotics and aspirin.

After the head seemed to have most of the swelling reduced we started applying (a carcinogenic, but very effective) ointment to the entire debriding area (now about the size of the palm of an adult hand).

The vision in the left eye is gone, but he never went off his food and was in pretty good spirits throughout.

We presume that he was bitten by a desert recluse (indigenous to the Mojave Desert) which, unlike the black widow (which does neural damage and has been the cause of death over the last 40 years in two of my female Schipperkes and a Shetland Sheepdog who was left for a long time as a boarder in our commercial Kennel, after she had been treated for a black widow bite -- she was alive when she went home, but I somehow think that she was never going to recover), this "bite" seemed to be restricted to necrotic damage and it spreads and spreads. We have gone about 5 or 6 days without further spread, but that side of his once gorgeous head is like leather (dried out leather, at that, so it cracks easily).