Glad you got her. I lived in Florida and knew about some of our local spiders and of course my garage had their share of the black widows as I'd find their sacks under the ladder rungs. Didn't know there are also brown widows too. Had a bunch of them also. Hate spiders with a passion but glad to know my kitty loves to chase them and catch them. No widows here in Iowa that I know of..............doesn't mean we don't have them though. I find spiders rarely now that my kitty is on guard down here in the basement. I heard or read that leaving basil around deters bugs of all kinds so I hang fresh basil in my garages and basement and it seems to be helping as I rarely find a web or spider around. It also makes the basement and garages smell better too.....................that is if you like the smell of basil.....I do.