Were you at the Arizona State Fair yesterday around 5:30 p.m.? Did you snatch tiny baby GusGus (a goat) from his mother (also a goat)? Are you petting GusGus, crooning softly as you read this? If so, please bring GusGus back to the state fair immediately. Otherwise, GusGus is going to die.

According to the Associated Press, GusGus was snatched from the petting zoo early yesterday evening, and “officials notified fair security and the Arizona Department of Public Safety to be on the lookout for someone with a goat, a sight she says should be uncommon.”

Should be uncommon, but with the recent spate of goat-related crimes, spotting GusGus amongst us could be tricky.

So to aid the detectives in their case, we ask you, dear readers, to help bring GusGus’s captors to justice. Currently, the facts in the case are sparse, but here’s what we know to be true:

  • Baby GusGus was stolen from the Great American Petting Zoo at the Arizona Stair Fair around 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4.
  • GusGus is just a few weeks old.
  • GusGus weighs a mere 5 pounds.
  • GusGus’s mother is VERY sad. If she had the ability to produce tears, that is almost surely what she’d be doing.

But, you may ask yourself, are we sure someone stole GusGus? Could this have been an accident?

“He was in a pen with his mom so this wasn’t an accident, this was intentional,” the fair’s livestock director told local news station KPHO. This was a pre-meditated goat-snatching.

And people are disgusted. For a number of reasons.

Or perhaps there was something even more sinister afoot.

No matter where that goat’s been or what gods he’s been promised to, if you can bring him back alive—no questions asked!

Why is GusGus weeping? Why is he completely shorn? Why does GusGus have a pentagram on his forehead? Who cares! Just as long as he’s home.

Either way, someone needs to keep their eye on Pete.

Please, bring GusGus home.

UPDATE 5:30 pm: Twenty hours after he went missing, GusGus was found wandering along a canal and taken to a pet store. He’s since been reunited with his mother.

Contact the author at ashley@gawker.com. Screencap via KPHO.