Innovet 10cc Soft Hand Feeder Combo Kit (Stepped Tip & 6mm Tip)

I am very happy with this product.I bought the 10cc size. It came with two syringes, both the same size but with different tips that have different sized openings.The reason I bought these was to hand feed one of our cats who has kidney disease and had stopped eating from his dish.We weren't going to let him starve to death because of kidney problems! (Special note... if your cat has kidney disease, s/he also likely has a very sour stomach that keeps them from wanting to eat (sort of like a tummy flu). Ask your vet about something to help with that. There are holistic helps as well as a people medicine that can help, both OTC.)I was a little worried about being able to squeeze the syringe without overloading food into my cat's mouth.However, the plunger works very smoothly. Even my hand with two "bum" fingers (repetitive-use cysts on the knuckles) can push the plunger without excessive force.For pet feeding, the food does need to be liquefied to thinner than oatmeal quality to work. I use the one with the wider tip for feeding our adult cat. It is much easier than the squeeze-bulb style syringe I was using before. The flexible tip is gentler on his mouth and tongue, and I have much better control over how much is given at one squeeze. The measurement markings on the outside allow me to better know how much he is actually getting into him as well. I just put the tip with the plunger all the way down into his liquified/pureed food and pull the plunger back to fill it to the desired level. If you get too much air in the tube, just hold upright, tap, and push a little to force the air out.The plunger and tube are super easy to clean: just pop them apart, run hot/warm water thru the tube, rinse the plunger, and push a couple tubes of water through it. I then leave the pieces separate to dry out, and by the next meal time, they are dry and ready to use again. I don't advise using soaps if you are using these for pets - many are super-sensitive to soap residue tastes.The smaller tip has a graduated sizing that gets pretty small at the end. While I don't need this one, I could see it being very useful for dispensing milk to tiny kittens or liquids to even smaller pets, such as a hamster. It is too narrow for foods, so that tip would be good for liquids only. You could always trim it if you needed the opening a little wider, but you'll be losing length, which could affect being able to get it into your pet's mouth.Both tips are a soft, flexible silicone and are much nicer for my pet than the hard tip of the bulb syringe I was using before.While I wish I didn't need these at all, I am glad someone makes them! I am very pleased with both the quality of the syringes and the user-friendly function of them. (Anyone who has tried to use those syringes with the black inner tips will know what I mean... they are hard to push and unpredictable as to how far it will glide at any given time.)Well done, Innovet, and thank you for helping me to help my cat.

I bought these in the past and they were great. NOW, AS OF SEPTEMBER 2016, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME AS THE ONES IN THE PICTURE ANYMORE. Complete waste of mone and false advertising.

So far loving the straight tube head -- haven't had an occasion to use the graduated one.We have elderly cats (rescued ferals for years) and are vegetarians with hens (long-term chicken health care!), so we've had many situations in which manually feeding an animal is necessary. We have in the past used the small disposable plastic syringes that come with medications. The opening is so small, it constantly gets clogged by solid lumps or grains in whatever food mush we've made. It made feeding even more of a chore and unpleasantness for the animal and ourselves, and was less effective at getting nutrition in, as we'd have to water down more to get less lumpy liquid.I've been using this feeder for my 20 year-old CKD (chronic kidney disease) cat when she ends up not eating enough by herself in a day for whatever reason (especially for the last meal of the night -- if they don't have enough food in there, stomach acid builds up and causes CKD cats to vomit, which quickly becomes a dangerous feedback loop of nausea, not eating, vomiting, etc.).While this experience obviously isn't joyful for either of us, it's certainly now the deluxe version -- the extra length (delivers the chow to the back of the mouth without jambing the whole syringe in there), the softness of the tube, the wider opening and the "dial-a-dose" capability are all enormous steps up. It still certainly clogs, but it's a lot better, and I can feel confident I won't accidentally flood her mouth with too much liquid at once.I haven't had the need to employ it on a hen yet (yay!), but if somebody manages to get themselves a compacted crop with all this long srping grass, I'm sure this will be just as much an improvement for avian treatments, too. I'll give an update -- hopefully not for a long time.... ; )

JUST WHAT I NEEDED! I have an older sick cat who isn't eating, and we have to feed him by hand/syringe until he gets well. I was using syringes without the needle given to me by our vet, but, the rubber stopper in those kept hanging and sticking, and I would press hard on the plunger to get the food out, and either nothing came out, or I would flood my poor cat's mouth with too much food. Plus, the hard plastic was hurting the roof of his mouth since he would toss his head and it would come into contact with the syringe.BUT, with the Soft Hand Feeder and the silicone tip ... no more hurting my cat's mouth. And, I was able to trim the silicone tip to just the right length. The plunger depresses smoothly ... no more hanging. PLUS, one of the best options for our use is the ring around the plunger. I can fill the syringe, and then move the ring to just above the top of the syringe, and go ahead and put enough pressure on the plunger to expel the food, but, only the amount that I want will come out. No more shooting too much food into his mouth and almost choking him by accident. Then, I just move the ring again, press the plunger, repeat.Our cat was fighting us when we feed him; now, it goes very smoothly, and he's able to quickly swallow the amount of food that I place in his mouth. If you're got a sick pet to feed, I highly recommend getting this product.Also, easy to take apart to clean and disinfect.

The gasket got stuck inside the tube on the third use.

Great for assist feeding foster kittens!! I sometimes have kittens who are mostly weaned but who need a little extra boost on feeding until they get the hang of it. I mix high quality canned kitten food with some kitten replacement milk in a small food processor and feed the little ones. The soft tip is great for their tiny mouths. I bought extra tips.

Is gentle for my cat

My cat LOVES it ! Very comfortable to feed !