Hi, my friend has a sloping west facing lawn and lives in the North East UK. He also has a huge sycamore tree in the far corner, next to the lawn. Unfortunately because of quite a wet winter, he didnt go out into the garden for quite a while, and when he did there were numerous bald patches in the lawn, about a foot across.

The areas where there was no grass growing were quite flat and with no weeds. Could this be cat damage or maybe through fallen leaves being allowed to lay on the lawn? He has used weed and feed before, but not since the summer last year.

Now he is trying to grow some grass seed he has sprinkled on. What if any deterrents are there for cats on grass? I thought they liked the soil to scratch about in?

Thanks in advance!