can someone plss tell me what spider this is it looks like a sac spider but im not sure.
if a sac what will happen if it bit my dog. is worried that it might because we found our chewing on it and it was still moving when i took it away. i cant see any bite marks on the outside of the dogs mouth and its even harder to see in the inside of his mouth so pllllssss any help or info will be apreciated

That is a sac spider.... I have no idea how the effect dogs though...

Thanx t rad. i hoped that it wasnt i cant see a bite tho but to get inside a pugs mouth is a mision

I am sure if your pug got bitten by the sac spider, it would have showed signs by now, I would suggest you take the pug to the Vet, and let them have a look for you.

Derived from the Greek "cheiro" meaning "hand" and "akanta" meaning "spine" relating to the male palp.

Cheiracanthium spiders range from 3-12.15 mm in body length and make silk sac retreats, hence the common name of sac spider. They are creamy straw coloured but sometimes the carapace and legs might be slightly darker than the abdomen. The abdomen may present with an indistinct dorsolateral folium mark. Cheiracanthium has a black face and chelicerae and the first pair of legs is noticeably longer than the fourth pair and these they use for detecting and capturing their prey Clubiona resemble Cheiracanthium but have the first pair of legs similar in size to the fourth and if the chelicerae is darker than the carapace it will vary from brown to maroon in colour. Clubiona does not enter buildings.

Long-legged sac spiders are fast and aggressive, free ranging and nocturnal and commonly occur on vegetation. They are important in controlling agricultural insect pests. I have, on more than one occasion found a sac spider gazing up at me from a bunch of grapes in the local supermarket.

They construct a silk-like retreat in a curled leaf or in the heads of Protea flowers. With the onset of summer they find houses an ideal habitat, constructing their sac retreats in the folds of curtains, bedding, clothing, doorframes and corners. Being active at night, it is then that most bites occur when the animal is inadvertently pressed against the body, as the large fangs of this spider are capable of penetrating light fabrics.

Absent only from the polar regions there are 8 species in South Africa with Cheiracanthium furculatum (previously Cheiracanthium lawrencei) responsible for about 70-90% of all spider bites in South Africa. The bites, although not life-threatening, are nasty as the venom of these spiders is cytotoxic.

Yep, definately a male sac spider. As far as I know, even people don't always react the same to their cytotoxic venom, most of the times the reaction is one similar to a mosquito bite but it can become quite a lot more serious with lots of tissue damage....

My friend was over the other night and he saw one by the bathroom door and showed me how it looked and killed it then, he has a nasty scar about as big as a R5 coin on his body where a sac spider bit him.