Refer your friend to the UCR website please. You can definitely keep this as a pet, although that one looks a bit expired. It’s not dangerous.My friend says its a brown recluse but I dont think so, I think it's a wolf spider of some species
they dont get all THAT big, he's likely either seeing hogna carolinensis or some other tigrosa species. this particular species is only about 20mm in body length, wiht a 2" legspanThey're really big, apparently this is a smaller one, I'll take pictures as I get a few more for pets
Not dangerous, especially if it's deadRefer your friend to the UCR website please. You can definitely keep this as a pet, although that one looks a bit expired. It’s not dangerous.
I remember when my brother went to Georgia and brought back a dead black window. He freaked when I picked it up by the leg like it was somehow going to come to life and bite me. I said to him "unless it's a zombie I think I'll be okay".Not dangerous, especially if it's dead