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does anyone know of a way to treat the soil to kill whip worms? i cannot pave my backyard, although that would help. bleach and dawn don't seem to help either. any suggestions?
thanks

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Here's a website about whipworms (eeew).

http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_whipworms.html[/url]

Quote: Soil contaminated by whipworm eggs is contaminated for years. It is virtually impossible to remove the eggs from the soil or kill them. Happily, however, this is one pet intestinal parasite that is not transmissible to humans.

I'd hold off on the bleach, it might not kill the whipworms but it will do serious damage to anything green.

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Honestly the only way for your dog (I'm assuming dog) to be reinfested is by repeated contact with the infested ground. The best way to keep your pet from getting these awful things again is to bring it indoors permanently (going for walks notwithstanding - they can't get it that easy). That would seem far more logical and cost effective than paving your yard.

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You might try a dense ground cover, say some kind of tough native grass, to avoid contact with the soil. On the other hand, if your dog's a digger....

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this is one pet intestinal parasite that is not transmissible to humans.

not quite
You may want to read this site

http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factshe...ichuriasis.pdf

bleach and dawn don't seem to help either. any suggestions?
thanks
Create a kennel run in the yard for your dog, in that way you you are not having to deal with the whole yard using pavers or cement as the base, reinfection is caused by ingesting the eggs so as long as the dog is not eating dirt, grasses and its poop it won't get reinfected. Wash down the run periodically with clorox

To deal with the ones currently in the yard, the eggs need moist shaded soil soil to survive, exposures to sunlight and drying will kill them off. So keep the grass mowed very short, apply applications of lime Wherea yard situation precludes use of cement, adrying agent such as lime, can be applied after the initial clean-up. This works because whipworm eggs are vulnerable to desiccation.
Drough conditions can be your best friend, you can help the yard along by covering with waterproof tarps to help get the soil dried out, you will loose your grass but reseeding would be cheaper than your over options like removing and replacing topsoil, paveing or cementing,

If you live in a area where burning is allowed, the quickest way to kill of the eggs in the soil is with with heat like a flame thrower or putting straw on the lawn and burning, the eggs will die when exposed to temps over 126 fahrenheit, this is a method that has been used in used in farming as livestock, like pigs can also get, Unfortunely you live too far south for winter to be of help as they also die when exposed to ground cold of 15 fahrenheit,

This year may be too late to totally kill off all the eggs in your yard with fall approaching but lime applications and short mowing will help to reduce the numbers considerably including keeping the dog off the grass to prevent reinfection of the yard, I would suggest treating the dog with drontal plus and keeping it on interceptor year round and use a kennel run, if you get a good month long drought next summer(even if simulated using tarps) with continue lime applications and short mowing then you should be fine to restart your lawn again and as long as the dog is kept on interceptor and yard waste is cleanup regularily you and the dog should be able to enjoy the yard again

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contact your local pest control company they may have suggestions

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