An emu considers whether to accept feed from 11-year-old Kayla Bonnema, visiting her grandmother from Colorado, Saturday at the Gab and the Goats Petting Zoo event at the Washington County Public Library in Marietta. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

Matilda James, 4, of Marietta, embraces a rabbit brought to the Washington County Public Library Saturday by the Gab and the Goats Petting Zoo. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

Larissa Lee, with Gab and the Goats Petting Zoo, places Squabbles the pigeon on the shoulder of 4-year-old Marietta resident Edalyn Godfrey during an event Saturday at the Washington County Public Library in Marietta. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

Marietta resident Ophelia Phillips, 3, feeds a goat at the Gab and the Goats Petting Zoo set up Saturday outside the Washington County Public Library in Marietta. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

Haddie Sell, 6, of Hicksville, Ohio, is cautious with a juvenile emu brought to the Washington County Public Library in Marietta Saturday by the Gab and the Goats Petting Zoo. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

Sisters Hadley, 2, and Collins Feldner, 4, of Pleasant City, Ohio, feed a Dexter cow during an event with Gab and the Goats Petting Zoo Saturday at the Washington County Public Library in Marietta. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

The Gab and the Goats Petting Zoo brought more than 30 animals to the Washington County Public Library in Marietta on Saturday, with kids and adults interested in petting, feeding and even holding animals like goats, pigs, rabbits, kittens, pigeons and chickens, plus a Dexter cow and two emus. (Photo by Evan Bevins)