--- description: Baby goat GusGus found after it went missing from the Arizona State Fair petting zoo in Phoenix, event officials say title: Baby Goat That Went Missing From From Fair is Found image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4847b54acbe7bed/69886fce5f570fdc5bb1e319/baby-goat-stolen-arizona-zoo.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Found: Baby Goat That Went Missing From the Arizona State Fair  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Nov 5, 2015 10:10 PM CUT  Emilie Owen—AP  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Nov 5, 2015 10:10 PM CUT A baby pygmy goat has been found after officials at the Arizona State Fair petting zoo in Phoenix claimed it had been [“stolen,”](https://www.facebook.com/azstatefair/photos/a.144061921741.135808.60325111741/10153793715401742/?type=3 "undefined") prompting a search party on social media. The rescuer, still unknown, [found](http://www.azfamily.com/story/30443225/baby-goat-stolen-from-petting-zoo-at-arizona-state-fair "undefined") the three-week-old animal “Gus Gus,” which weighs less than five pounds, wandering alongside a canal in the city’s northern area and brought it to a pet store, where an employee called the state fair, livestock director of the event Karen Seale told [3TV Phoenix.](http://www.azfamily.com/story/30443225/baby-goat-stolen-from-petting-zoo-at-arizona-state-fair "undefined") 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](http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/c2104369072b4199ae23697da4221af7/US--ODD-Baby-Goat-Stolen "undefined"). Hashtags [#bringgusgushome](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bringgusgushome "undefined") and #FindGusGus were started to spread the word. The AP also quoted the petting zoo manager Emile Owen saying that the goat’s mother “Custard” was beside herself: “She’s looking at us and she cries.” The fair posted a photo of the two reunited: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4101937/baby-goat-stolen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4101937/baby-goat-stolen/"},"headline":"Found: Baby Goat That Went Missing From the Arizona State Fair","datePublished":"2015-11-05T22:10:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:40.496Z","description":"\"Gus Gus\" has been reunited with his mother \"Custard\"","url":"https://time.com/4101937/baby-goat-stolen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4847b54acbe7bed/69886fce5f570fdc5bb1e319/baby-goat-stolen-arizona-zoo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4847b54acbe7bed/69886fce5f570fdc5bb1e319/baby-goat-stolen-arizona-zoo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"baby-goat-stolen-arizona-zoo","caption":"","creditText":"Emilie Owen—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4101937/baby-goat-stolen/","name":"Found: Baby Goat That Went Missing From the Arizona State Fair"}}]}] ```