>> tanya and her husband have some big old snakes as pets, and they raise their own rodents to feed the snakes. before you reach any hasty conclusions, tanya took the three baby squirrels home, first tried bottle feeding them every two hours. >> i came home and i fed them and then i went back to, would. i came home and i fed them. my husband said, well, why don't we try putting them with the momma rat. she just had babies the week before. >> reporter: so they did, and you can watch what happened right here. one by one, momma rat, that's her name, took the squirrels into her cave and has been nursing them ever since. >> i was so squared that she was going to kill them. i didn't even want to try it. i'm sure glad my husband talked me into it. it's like she did it naturally. there was no even thinking about it. maternal instinct, i guess you could say. >> reporter: don't know if it's squirrel instinct or not, but the three some fit right in with their step rat relatives getting a workout on the exercise wheel, drinking bottled water and being cute enough to convert tanya and