Baby goat stolen from Arizona State Fair petting zoo

Searle said no questions would be asked if GusGus were returned safe and well to the state fairgrounds.

Fair officials say GusGus was taken from the petting zoo at the fair Wednesday, November 4, 2015, leaving his mother without her kid.

Together: The Arizona State Fair posted this photograph on Facebook Thursday, writing: “Gus Gus and mama!”

GusGus, a three-and-a-half week old baby goat, was missing for twenty hours when someone discovered him near a North Phoenix canal, Kristi Walsh, the fair’s director of marketing, tells New Times.

He weighs less than 5 pounds and Searle said someone may have hidden GusGus in a jacket or purse.

Searle said nothing like this has ever happened at the Arizona State Fair.

“From the bottom of our hearts, we’d like to thank him”, petting zoo manager Emilie Owen said.

A man who flew a gyrocopter through a few of America’s most restricted airspace before landing outside the U.S. Capitol earlier this year will plead guilty to a felony in connection with the incident, his lawyer says. So, someone would have noticed if GusGus had tried to run off. Because he is tame and accustomed to humans, he would not have cried out if someone picked him up. The baby pygmy goat that vanished from the fair came home to his mother surrounded by TV cameras and jubilant fairgoers.

“This was definitely an intentional theft”.

“Like any infant, he needs to be with his mother”, Searle said.

Authorities had made a public plea for help in finding the goat, who was with his mother when they believe he was snatched by someone reaching over a low fence at the event’s popular petting zoo. “The person who has him can drop him off at the 17th Street and McDowell gate and that’s it. We’ll let everything go”.