My dog has had worms a few times recently, and I am considering a second dog (Puppy) soon. I understand worm eggs live in the soil, and can exist there for a very long time before infecting something.

My question is: Is there anything I can do to get rid of them? Some sort of comercial product or home remedy to kill them in the soil? Or do I just have to have the dogs de-wormed regularly.

Thanks

I take it there is no solution short of spraying bleach and killing everything?

 Quote: Brian Berry

I take it there is no solution short of spraying bleach and killing everything?

It's not easy to answer this.

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Roundworms have a strange life cycle, migrating out of the intestine and into the lungs (and other organs) before returning to the intestines. Once infected, a dog may pass millions of worm eggs in the stool. The eggs can live for several months in the environment. They are sensitive to ultraviolet light, so pens which are exposed to direct sunlight do not support the life cycle of the worm as well as more protected pens. Roundworm eggs can be killed by using aqueous iodine solution (Clinics of North America, November 1987) but are not killed by chlorine bleach, although it is supposed to remove the sticky outer coating of the worm, making it easier to cleanse them from infected areas. If your adult dogs are on heartworm prevention medications there is a good chance that they are being dewormed with a medication that can kill roundworms on a monthly basis, which should be sufficient to prevent any real worry over them getting infected, especially since dogs become more resistant to infection with roundworms as they get older. Cleaning up stools daily prevents the spread of the eggs pretty efficiently and is a good practice to prevent infections. END from
http://www.vetinfo4dogs.com/dworms.html