- 1). Take your dog or cat to the veterinarian if you think your yard has hookworms. If your yard is infested, your animal is most likely infected.
- 2). Start your animal on a hookworm medicine prescribed by your vet. Once it is treated for the hookworm, start it on a heartworm prevention medicine. Most heartworm prevention medicines prevent hookworm as well. If your animal is hookworm free, your yard will remain hookworm free.
- 3). Clean the infected area in your yard. Pick up any feces and sanitize any toys in the area. Heat will kill hookworms, so to sanitize the toys, wet them down and then put them in the microwave for one minute.
- 4). Rake borax (sodium borate) into any soil or gravel in your yard. Do not put borax on the grass because it will kill your lawn.
- 5). Pick up any animal feces daily. Hookworm medicine will not work on your animal immediately, so its feces may still carry the parasite.
- 6). Train your animal to use one area of the yard to defecate. This will help prevent the spread of hookworm throughout your yard if your animal is infected in the future.
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