Pretty tame. It’s ok. Surrey girls do the same thing.
The south okanogan was a great place for venomous critters - itty-bitty scorpions, the most brazen black widows I’ve ever seen, something like a brown recluse, and rattle-less rattlesnakes. Apparently, people have unnaturally selected the rattle out of the snake population by stomping all the loud ones.
Didn’t that just come back and bite them in the butt. I hadn’t heard that. Too funny. We used to have a supermacho mixed corgi. He always had to be first on nature walks and that was a good thing too. He saw more snakes, they were right at eye level for him, then you would ever believe.
dwest, after you mentioned brown recluse spiders I did a bit of digging around online for reference material. One article I read (in this ‘news.com. au’ article from 2008 http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/inquiry/08_inquiries.asp#nov2008) had a statement that caught my eye, “ ‘No Australian spider is known to have necrotic (tissue-destroying) venom’ it said, adding that the brown recluse spider only exists in a very small area of one southern Australian state.”
This statement was attributed to the Queensland Museum so I contacted them. I live in South Australia so I was interested to know where this ‘small area’ was. I got a reply from the Museum directing me to the source of the news.com quote.
The Museum forwarded my query on to Doctor Robert J Raven (also Queensland Museum) whose quotes were used in the article.
The small area he refers to is in one of South Australia’s more affluent suburbs, North Adelaide, and in particular he states 'One Loxosceles species occurs in a street in North Adelaide, and yes, introduced.’
I had to have a little giggle to myself over that statement. I could hear the cries of indignation and outrage from the well heeled Doctors, physicians, local Parliament members, cricketers and football players of the North Adelaide street in question demanding to know why these obviously unsavoury characters were allowed to reside, not just in their suburb, but their street. The mere thought of it all would have had the whole street writing to their local parliamentary representative demanding eviction of this detriment to their street.
Dr Raven states that no recorded instances of bites have been reported from Recluse spiders from that street.
I think the neighbours are obviously keeping their distance from these blow-ins. 
He goes on to say that even when bites from the Loxosceles species do occur in the US, they are rare.
He supplied me with this interesting link http://www.arachnology.org/Arachnology/Pages/Reclusa.html
Thanks to Rebecca Ryan and Dr Raven from the Queensland Museum for their help on the matter.