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Cat damage to lawn?

Stikeebun

2006-05-26, 5:21 pm

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!

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Stikeebun

George.com

2006-05-27, 6:21 am

"Stikeebun" <Stikeebun.28fkvz@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> 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?

no, if your cats are lazy like mine they just shit on the lawn. Even if
there are garden dug over for them to shit in they prefer the lawn. Luckily
for me it is winter and the shit gets washed away fairly quickly. It could
be cats although a foot across is quite a big patch so it need to be a big
cat shit. I have just mown up some leaves and noticed bald patches as well.
If you have several months of temperate wet weather ahead of you, and
dependant on the type of grass, some of the dead looking grass should
recover if it is cat shit or leaves.

rob

Zeppo

2006-05-30, 10:21 am

"George.com" <roblyn@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
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> "Stikeebun" <Stikeebun.28fkvz@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:Stikeebun.28fkvz@gardenbanter.co.uk...
>
> no, if your cats are lazy like mine they just shit on the lawn. Even if
> there are garden dug over for them to shit in they prefer the lawn.
Luckily
> for me it is winter and the shit gets washed away fairly quickly. It could
> be cats although a foot across is quite a big patch so it need to be a big
> cat shit. I have just mown up some leaves and noticed bald patches as
well.
> If you have several months of temperate wet weather ahead of you, and
> dependant on the type of grass, some of the dead looking grass should
> recover if it is cat shit or leaves.
>
> rob
>
Years back when I used to let my cats outdoors I found it was cat pee, not
shit, that was killing patches of grass. Though it would have to be a damn
big cat to kill a foot-wide spot.

Jon

Muvin Gruvin

2006-05-30, 12:21 pm

one feral cat lives under my neighbors shed.....she runs between both of
our yards. Have yet to see any damage from her. Mow diligently without
ever seeing any cat scat. We believed she was owned by someone till she
had kittens under that shed. My neigbhor found an org. that came out
trapped her and the kittens. The glitch is they spayed her but brought
her back here but kept the kittens to be tamed and adopted.
In my area raccoons will dig up huge areas of grass looking for grubs.

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