dead spider

I do not revel in death but here is a dead spider I found in the dogs' water bowl today. I assume it was dead. If it wasn't, I guess tipping the water out (over the fence into the front garden) saved it. One of the funny things was I was looking at this thing in the water bowl and Barry was so up for drinking water at that very moment. I don't usually freak out about things like spiders but this one shocked me - it was huge.