LUMBERTON, Texas (AP) — In the kitchen of his Hardin County home, Perry Viator filled and heated small bottles, while 6-month-old Hannah and Lucy hopped back and forth through the living room, their long tails sliding across the carpet behind them.

He bent down to feed them the mixture of "Wombaroo" milk, scooping up Hannah and placing in her in a fleece-lined tote bag, where she happily settled in, her ears and noes poking out above the opening.

The Beaumont Enterprise reports the young red kangaroos are two of the 17 marsupials Viator keeps on his 12-acre property, along with several dogs, a...