Dog is Killed by Giant Spider in Essex
Published on August 28, 2008 by Freelance Contributors · 1 CommentA home has been evacuated after a family dog was fatally bitten by a huge Camel Spider in Colchester, Essex.
Eight-year old Bella was bitten by the venomous creature after it ran across the bedroom.
The spider is believed to have been accidentally brought to the UK by the dog’s owner, Rodney Griffiths who had just returned from military service in Afghanisatn
The spider has not yet been recovered and the family have evacuated the home in the meantime.
Mr Griffiths’ wife, Lorraine: “It was the size of a palm. I think it hitched a lift with my husband. He’s back out there now, but I’m petrified of spiders and I cannot live in that house until it’s gone.”
She said her son Ricky discovered the creature: “Ricky was in my bedroom, went into the drawer under my bed and something crawled across his hand. He saw a huge spider and screamed to Cassie.
“They tried to corner it, but it was too big. They poked it with a coat hanger and the spider bit it. The dog came in and barked. The spider hissed and Bella went running out whimpering.”
Bella became ill following the bite and had to be euthanised.
Camel Spider, captured by troops
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I remember seeing Camel Spiders in the Sinai desert in the early 1980′s when I was in a peacekeeping force that observed on the Israeli withdrawal. The ones I saw were about the size of your hand, how big was the one in Colchester? The rumour was they would bite a camel then eat part of its flesh, then move off elsewhere, the camel is left with chunks of flesh missing!
A UK dog isn’t going to have any resistance to something that big biting it.
Wonder how it got back, in the soldiers backpack perhaps?
Urrgghh horrid!
yeh i couldnt stand losin my dog its like my pride and joi