Pest Organisms / Brown Dog Tick
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The brown dog tick is a tiny eight-legged bug, a cousin of spiders, that drinks blood and loves dogs so much it moves into the house, like the world's worst roommate. It is reddish-brown and very small until it fills with blood, then turns fat and gray like a little raisin. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN378 Ticks can carry germs that make dogs and people sick, so if you find one, tell a grown-up instead of touching it. Source: https://extension.umaine.edu/ticks/maine-ticks/brown-dog-tick-or-kennel-tick/