Like a scene out of a Hollywood tearjerker, a baby pygmy goat that vanished from the Arizona State Fair came home to its mother surrounded by TV cameras and jubilant fairgoers.
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The little white goat is 3 weeks old and weighs less than 5 pounds.
While they do not know who took GusGus or where he has been, Searle and petting zoo handlers are relieved to reunite him with his mother, Custard. Zoo workers said his mom, Custard, had been searching and crying for her kid.
“This was definitely an intentional theft”.
“He is accustomed to being touched, so he wouldn’t scream his little head off when someone picked him up”, said Karen Searle, the fair’s livestock director. The goat was left near a canal and later found by a good Samaritan who took him to a local pet store.
Finding him was especially urgent because he can not survive without his mother’s milk.
“Like any infant, he needs to be with his mother”, Searle said. Now GusGus is back with Custard who is happily nursing her kid again.
When asked if the petting zoo is monitored by surveillance cameras, Searles said: “There are no security cameras in this building”.
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“The minute it happened, we notified all of the gates and said, hey, please keep an eye on this, notified DPS, please keep a lookout for someone with a goat, which should be abnormal”, Searle said. But the fair has received calls from potential witnesses and are passing credible tips to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, Searle said. “We said “It’s got to be him” and it was him”. Owen said it saddens her that now they have to change security around the petting zoo.
