Jorgensen Pet Piller

Works great!! It is new so it needs to be used to work seemingly. Have used this tool for vitamins and prescription pills with cats and dogs. It is so much easier than using your hands to put a pill in a pet’s mouth. This will help the process and ensure that your precious pet is getting the vitamin or prescription medication properly.

Quick takeaway: I can't imagine a situation where this would actually work.My cat takes half of a tiny pill on a regular basis. I bought this to replace a piller that I had purchased from our old vet's office, before we moved. That piller was never perfect, but I could usually get it to work by wrapping the pill half in a piece of pill pocket and stuffing it into the opening (which was too big to hold the pill half alone). Eventually it wore out, though.Looking for a new piller, I thought this one might actually be better than our old one because of the small opening. Finally, I thought, I can just put the pill half in without adding anything. Well, when I opened the package, I immediately had concerns. The plunger had sticky yellowish goo on it (probably from the manufacturing process), and the rubbery tip had excess material hanging off it. Nevertheless, I washed the whole thing and gave it a try.As of this writing, this product has worked on 0/4 attempts. The tiny pill half barely fits in the opening, and the plunger sticks so much when I try to give the pill that it makes a loud POP when I finally push it through. Even worse, though, is that the pill doesn't "shoot" out. It just sort of sticks to the rubbery tip and slowly falls off. I tried it once with the pill pocket trick, but then it was even worse. This product is awful. I don't know how it would work for anyone.

This is long enough to use easily for small pets. It is not as great for large dogs.The stick can be a little hard to get used to using. One hand on the stick, one opening the pet mouth, trying to move the plunger, it can be a bit awkward.Practice pressing the plunger before pilling your pet and you will get better at it. Be sure to land the pill in the very back of their throat. It might take two people, one to secure the pet and one to use the pill popper/open the mouth, etc. It would be even more useful if humans came with a third arm, but then we would not be able practice team building skills.This is a decently made tool, not really a long term use one, but I expect it to hold up for a few months of daily use. Good thing because the chihuahua rarely threatens bodily harm, but over pills, he does. I prefer to have my fingers as far from my teeth as possible while putting what is apparently a disgusting tasting pill down his throat. (Can't use food with this med!) Because he is very, very, VERY adept at moving a pill out of his mouth with his tongue and has more tongue strength than most body builders, this helps me get the pill right to the back of his throat.

I think it is a good product but the tip is not large enough to hold my dog's huge cyclosporine pill

Works well. Finally able to get pills down my cats throat at this very hard time

We ordered this online as our redtipped similar one has deterioriate and the rubber has stiffened. We have a cat who takes about 4 pills a day one of which is large. My husband give most doses and his hands are too big for the style with the finger holes that I use. Unfortunately there are two flaws with this piller. The first is that the plunger shaft is not a smooth push, but sticks along the shaft. The 2nd flaw is that the blue flexible tip has a very small opening which is hard to pull apart to get a pill into and doesn't release the pill easily into the cat's mouth. I would not buy this again. Better to spend the extra and get one from the vet. Additionally, if you have smaller hands and small enough pills (especially half and quarter pills, the style with the 3 finger holes at the top of the plunger work very well, and the one we have even has a spare tip. As I said it isn't great for large pills or people administering who have large hands.

UPDATE: In spite of my misgivings about this piller, I tried using it daily for several days to give my cat a small capsule of medication. It was a struggle each time. I often had to do multiple attempts because the plunger wouldn't dispense the pill on the first try. Finally today, the pill got stuck in the piller so bad, it wouldn't come out! I finally pitched the whole thing in the trash, pill, piller and all. This thing is worse than worthless. I'd give it -10 stars, if possible.I had this exact same brand of pet piller years ago and it was great - sturdy, manufactured well and worked great.However, things have changed and obviously gone downhill.This piller arrived with the package in pristine condition, but the piller was bent beyond use. Even the plunger was bent inside.It's smaller than my old one and so flimsy it's ridiculous.This piller is awful, in every way possible.

The media could not be loaded. This is very close to the pill gun that my vet sells, and I needed a replacement so I thought I'd give it a try. That being said, the quality is definitely not there. The tip is too firm in addition to having the slot cut off-center. This makes putting the pill inside very difficult. Additionally, the slot is too short. I ran into an issue where the pill kept bouncing out when trying to put it into the hole because of that combination of manufacturing decisions. If they rework this slightly it will be a much more functional product.In its current state it is frustrating to use and will fail. For a similar price you can purchase one from a local vet that works 100 times better and more reliably. I will be returning mine as I find those defects to be unreasonable for long term use.I'm sharing some photos and a video of this pill gun compared to another style (not the one from my vet). The other one is so bad it's basically trash, compared to this one that is sooo close to being really nice! The blue tip is this listing, and the white tip is the competitor.