Soon, volunteers from the rescue group were on the scene, noting that the rat, aside from being stuck, was healthy.

“He was in a really good condition,” Andreas Steinbach, spokesperson for Berufstierrettung Rhein Neckar, told The Dodo.

But the rat’s ample figure was such that the rescuers were unable to get him through the hole with the equipment they had on hand. He was just too tightly corked.