The Brown Dog Tick Is Not an Outdoor Problem
Rhipicephalus sanguineus, the brown dog tick, is the only tick species known to complete its entire life cycle indoors. Every other tick needs outdoor vegetation for at least one stage. This one does not. It lays eggs in wall cracks, behind skirting boards, inside kennels, and in the folds of dog bedding, which means a dog that never leaves the apartment can still carry a full-blown infestation. In Indian cities where dogs live in flats and sleep on sofas, that biological fact matters more than almost anything else about the species.
