You are correct that this is a carpet beetle.
Carpet beetle cats.
Carpet beetles love to eat hair and fur and they are particularly attracted to dogs but will also feed on cat hair too.
They range in color from black to speckled with white brown yellow and orange.
Larvae young carpet beetles are 1 8 to 1 4 inch long and.
They cause damage in a house when the larval stage feeds on animal products fur leather hair feathers etc.
That all may fall off in the environment.
Carpet beetles also lay up to 125 eggs a day and tend to scatter them around rather than leaving them in one place their favourite place to lay is a cool shady area near plants and vegetation pretty much areas where most cats like to lay and relax outdoors.
Its dissolution ratio is 1 200.
The adults are 1 16 to 1 8 inch long and oval shaped.
You can treat pets with a bath using a melaluca shampoo or consider a topical ointment from your veterinarian.
It is then to be sprayed in the places where pests appear both indoors and outdoors.
Carpet beetles don t pose a threat danger to kramer.
If your pet is scratching a lot then it may have a carpet beetle allergy too.
Carpet beetles like most insects live outdoors and with most cats venturing outside chances are they will come into close contact with one at some point.
This insecticide is capable of removing 30 pest species including beetles cigarette beetles ants bedbugs boxelder bugs cockroaches red flour beetles etc.