I need to know what kind of Tick this is?

Question

I just found 3 small Ticks that I thought were Deer Ticks. Except they were all brown/red. The legs were not black like the typical Deer Tick, they had coloring like the body, more red than brown, and they didn't have the gray markings like a Dog Tick or the gray spot like the Lone Star Tick. The body was a tear drop shape and it was just a little longer than 1/16", not including the legs. So far I haven't found out what kind it is. We live in a city and have 2 indoor cats so I know it's not from them. We were just over a friends house and they live in a more wooded area of Saugus, Massachusetts. Is there a 4th type of Tick that would be in this area and have the same details as the 3 I found?

Side note...they were in the carpet not on me. And so far I haven't found any bites.

Answer 1

Possibly the Brown dog tick.... http://vector.ifas.ufl.edu/graphics/brown_dog_tick-co.jpg
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Or the American dog tick.... http://www.co.orange.nc.us/health/a_american_dog_tick.jpg

However there are many other species of ticks (alot more than 4) so you might want to look through this site to try and identify the ones you saw... http://bugguide.net/node/view/15486/bgpage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick
http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/MedEnt/TickBioFS/TickBioFS.html
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/rbkimsey/caticks.html

Answer 2

i am in the army and i have had my share of meeting ticks. so the ones that you discribed to me sound like a deer tick. i would definately seek medical attention. ticks carry forms of lime desease and that is not fun. they are most like males cause the female brown and are a little larger.

Answer 3

I think it may be a wood tick, also did you know there are 80 kinds of
ticks. One is too many for me. Go to Google and click on images then type
in wood tick, lots of pics.

http://hgic.clemson.edu