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ok i live in northern kentucky, and me and my cousin were hiking in the creek tryin to find frogs, newts, salamanders, and snakes under rocks etc. when we picked up a rock and found a pretty big spider (about 1 inch long and wide) and it looked like a tarantula, hairy, 6 eyes, blackish brown, medium to large abdomen. We though it was a wolf spider, but it sure didnt look like it. There was no web in where we found it under the rock, just tunnels, (maybe/maybe not made by it) but we caught it (unfortunatly i dont have a pic of it, its at my cousins house) but we put a pinky mouse in a cage with it, just to see what would happen, and it attacked it voraciously and bit it once, and backed off. The mouse immediatly started twitching and stiffened. We took the mouse out and threw it away, and we concluded that this spider could be venomous. What do you guys think it is? We looked it up, and it said it could be a brown spider (relative of recluse) or a brown wood spider (never heard of it, but it was in this old book about spiders) Any help would be appreciated!

Nursery Web / Fishing spider probably. they look a lot like wolf spiders and are not above taking largish prey if needed.
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