What kind of spider is huge, black and orange?

Question

This is one of the scariest things I've ever experienced! My dog knocked over a bucket when I took him for a walk and out of it came two HUGE black and orange spiders. My dog killed one, and the other was caught by a police officer an hour later, but what are these called? So SCARY! Are these very poisonous?

Answer 1

not a very detailed description but there are a few spiecies it could be here is a site that has many spiders (ppl take pictures and experts tell them what it is) maybe your spider is there

http://www.spiderzrule.com/spiderphotos0...

or maybe u can find ur spider some where on the site.

Answer 2

There are a variety of red/orange leg tarantulas

http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/tarant...

Answer 3

Probably Tarantulas of some type.

Here are some pic's of them:

http://images.google.com.au/images?gbv=2...

Added: Sorry, forgot to say whether they are venomous or not. Some of them are quite venomous, but most of them won't have much effect on humans unless you are allergic to them.