The mysterious kid-napping ordeal that began on Nov. 4 and lasted for 20 harrowing hours and continuous sharing and communication via Arizona State Fair's Facebook page ended on Nov. 5 when the three week old pygmy goat, GusGus, was picked up 25 miles away from the Fair and left at a PetSmart store in Glendale. It seems #FindGusGus worked and forced the kid-napper to abandon any plans they had with the kid.
GusGus and his mother, Custard, are two of the animals provided by the Great American Animal Entertainment Company for the Arizona State Fair as part of their petting zoo. Both of them were supposedly enclosed in their pen at the time of the disappearance and State Fair officials insisted that the kid was too tame to have run off on its own.
"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. GusGus weighs approximately five pounds so it there would have been no difficulty carrying him off but, given that there were no security cameras set up in the area, officials have no evidence to turn to in order to find the perpetrator or prove that it was really a theft in the first place.
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.
"They called the fair and sent pictures to our phone... We said 'It's got to be him' and it was him," Searle recounted. Now GusGus is back with Custard who is happily nursing her kid again.
"From the bottom of our hearts, we'd like to thank him... He literally saved GusGus' life by finding him," Emilie Owen, the Petting Zoo manager said about the man who found GusGus at the canal. The mysterious man did not leave a name or number.
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