Jorgensen Pet Piller

This piller worked really well with my mom‘s cats

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.

Works as it should so far. Has saved my fingers from getting bit which is the purpose. I was worried after reading some of the reviews. It is pretty flimsy but there is no need to be rough with it, it is easy to load & "pop" the pill into the cats throat. Worth the money for sure

These pillers are great to avoid having to shove my fingers into my cats' mouths to get them to swallow pills. They do tend to have varying lift spans (between 1 to 6 months) depending on how much your cat bites the tip and how much the silicon splits (over time). I have found that in 100% of the pillers the silicon will eventually start to tear and it reall vary on the specific unit. You can continuing using the piller after the silicon tears, but it can lead to a more common feeling of frustration with the entire process and it can cause the pills to fail to leave the piller upon depression of the plunger (this can happen in a non-torn piller, but it is significantly less likely to happen).

3 stars because it just won’t work on my dog. He still is able to spit the pill out. I’m sure it would work well on a dog that is more cooperative than mine. So the stars is not a reflection on the actual product.

This Jorgensen pill shooter made giving my senior cat her Azodyl capsule go much faster and easier today! It arrived in the mailbox and I chose to clean it with alcohol before using it. I had my reservations but it pleasantly surprised me! I wouldn’t force the capsule too hard into the opening for fear of tearing it or spreading the precut slits further apart and making it harder to use in the future. I’ll try to give an update a week from now and maybe even a month so we can see if it can still grab a hold of the small capsule. I used coconut oil on the entire capsule and the tip end to assure it would go down quickly. If you have someone to help hold the cat, I would recommend that. I do wish the pen/syringe part was not so long. It makes it challenging to do by yourself. I’ll have to be careful to not shove it too far down her throat when trying to administer! I was thrilled to see I got it centered and pushed the pump fairly easily (except for length of syringe being an issue) and was surprised when I saw the tip was empty, that the capsule had gone down! I closed my cat’s mouth and stroked her throat as usual and she must’ve already swallowed it. I always make sure I have her food ready to put on the floor as soon as I realize she’s swallowed it so her very liquified food (I add several Tablespoonfuls UNSALTED broth to her renal support food) is ready to help her swallow capsule even more. Give this a try! Before this it was much more of a struggle. And in case you didn’t ask or research, no you can’t open and sprinkle the Azodyl on the cat’s food. Something about the way it needs to go further into the digestive tract before being exposed to the elements in order to work. Good luck!

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.

When you need a pet piller, you usually need one right then—as was the case when I found myself bringing home my kitty from urgent care. With none for cats available at any of local pet stores or even the farm stores, I ordered this one in from Amazon. Understand I have given many pills to many cats over the years as we’ve rescued furbabies delivered by the cat distribution system. We had high quality pet pillers for years, but those are all back home on the east coast, not out here at the base with me. And this one is in no way up to the job—the blue tip to hold the pill was incredibly stiff, and barely cut open. It would be hard to use with either small pills (likely to get caught), or large pills—nearly impossible to get it to hold. And the plunger was very hard to use—it had stiff ribs at the base that made it very hard to pull backwards to load, and just hard to push in to dispense, sticking in place repeatedly. Giving my current kitty in need of care her meds is a bit analogous to wrestling an angry alligator, so I certainly don’t need to be fighting the pill popper just to get it to load and dispense the pill on cue. Returning and looking for a better version.

Best on the market.

This was very disappointing. I bought to replace my old Veterinary medicine piller, looked the same. The mechanics of this one do not push the pill out...very poor design.

I have a 3Kg cat that is an alligator to pill. She is CKD and needs her pepcid EOD. Made the task way easier,

Fine for smaller pills but cannot handle anything very large.

I don’t know how to explain this well, but it doesn’t shoot the pill out. Maybe mine is faulty. There was a glue like substance in the inside tube part. I washed it out, but it doesn’t work. When you push on it there’s no pop on the end that shoots the pill out.