I've had my het pied grip the rat and tongs so hard I couldn't pry it out from her as well. Then there was this one time we had an escape (not feeding related, but still funny). Anywho, my giant male rat was running around our super cluttered storage room, running under shelves, over our feet, etc. We spent about three hours trying to catch the little bugger. We finally had him cornered, and just as I was about to grab him, he ran forward, bit my mother in law's big toe, then scuttled back under a shelving unit lol. We eventually caught him, but now that he's had a taste of freedom, he tries to make a break for it every time I pull open his rack.