Baby pygmy goat stolen from Arizona State Fair petting zoo

The miniature goat is so small that it can easily fit under a jacket or in a purse.

“He is accustomed to being touched, so he wouldn’t scream his little head off when someone picked him up”, the State Fair’s Livestock Director Karen Searle said.

“I just wanted to see him”, said Becky Thompson, who came to see GusGus after he had been reunited with his mother.

The little kid was found by an anonymous man walking his dog near a canal and brought it to the nearest PetSmart and it was an employee at the pet supply chain who contacted the State Fair when he was found. “There’s no way it was an accident”, Searle said.

GusGus, who made headlines with his disappearance – he even has a Twitter account – was stolen around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday evening from a petting zoo exhibit at the state fair.

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.

“This was definitely an intentional theft”.

If you have the goat, please return him to the staff at the gate at 17th Avenue and McDowell Road. “We said “It’s got to be him” and it was him”. The alleged kidnapping sparked disbelief from people on social media as well as the hashtag, #FindGusGus.

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

Fair officials claimed he was too “tame” to have run off, but there were no surveillance cameras in the petting zoo to verify whether someone took it, the Associated Press reports. Owen said it saddens her that now they have to change security around the petting zoo.