Kruuse Buster Pet Pill/Tablet Syringe with Soft Tip

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1. 302 of 303 people found the following review helpful

   
   With a little ingenuity, best pill solution I’ve found for my cat, February 27, 2012

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   Deirdre –

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   Problem: Cut a tiny white pill into exact halves. One half of pill crumbles to dust. Force other half down throat of Bengal with dagger claws. Repeat twice a day.
   Result: Massive blood loss from lacerations on arms and face from aforementioned Bengal.

   Solution: Order this pet piller. Order empty #4 gelatin capsules. Place pill half (or pill dust if the pill falls apart) in gel capsule. Pull back plunger. Place capsule completely inside rubber tip (again, after the plunger has already been pulled back). Cradle Bengal like baby. POP! Down her throat before she knows what is happening.

   My wife and I tried several solutions before working this all out. Not only were our cat’s pills tiny white things, they had to be cut in half so there was no pill popper that would effectively dispense them. We initially used pill pockets which worked well for about a week. Then our cat simply refused them, I suspect because she didn’t like the taste of the medicine inside.

   The gelatin caps have several benefits:
   – No bad medicine taste for kitty
   – Can be filled with multiple meds at once or with crumbles from failed pill cuttings
   – Easy to swallow
   – #4 is a perfect fit for this dispenser. Though #4 is pretty tiny, so it doesn’t hold much. The pills I have are about 1/4″ in width, and to fit an entire one of those into the capsule you would have to cut the pill into two pieces. I’m pretty confident larger capsule sizes would fit the piller, given the flexibility of the its rubber tip.
   – The gel cap is such a tight fit that the air piston of the pill popper literally shoots the medicine down her throat. One brief swallow and she is done with minimal stress to all parties.
   – Should you miss the target, an encapsulated pill is easier to locate than the tiny pill piece

   As for this specific pill dispenser, the finger and thumb rings make it much easier than others to keep hold of while balancing an unhappy cat, and the rubber tip is much gentler on their mouth than a hard plastic tip. We’ve used this popper for a couple weeks now, twice a day, and it hasn’t let us down yet.

   We are happy enough with it that we went ahead and ordered a second as a backup in case the first gets misplaced.

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2. 111 of 114 people found the following review helpful

   
   Do not use this pill popper. As we were …, September 6, 2015

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   christine (Vista,CA) –

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   This review is from: Kruuse Buster Pet Pill/Tablet Syringe with Soft Tip (Misc.)

   Do not use this pill popper. As we were giving our kitty his meds the rubber piece fell off and went down his throat and was swallowed.

   

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3. 94 of 96 people found the following review helpful

   
   Fantastic!, December 3, 2010

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   Elizabeth (United States) –
   
     

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   What a relief! The pet piller has just solved all my problems. I could never use the long handled one, which always seemed like it might be better for large dogs than cats. And I have tried every trick in the book, including compounded chewies and pill pockets, which my three cats thought at first were great treats, and then got wise and refused them. I have cut, mashed and chopped their thyroid meds, tried my fingers, and still found pills on the floor hours later. I read every review I could, and this piller is amazing. Quick, easy, short, perfect. My cats are happy and so am I. It’s worth paying more for postage than for the piller, believe me.

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