I tried this with oil bottles too. Seemed too hard to slide in properly with all the plumbing and wiring around my oil filter. For the last couple of years I used the following:
1. punch a hole in the oil filter
2. let drain for a while,
3. blow compressed air into the hole (rubber tip works great)
4. push a rag under the tread
5. duct tape the hole
6. spin off the oil filter
Gets 10 drops in the rag if done properly.