Comedian Jim Dezarnaulds says he hopes the release of a film about his beloved sidekick Gary the Goat will help raise money to have him stuffed and put on display in regional Queensland.
Gary amassed a following of more than 1.7 million people on social media, as he and Dezarnaulds, or Jimbo Bazoobi as he is known, travelled around Australia sharing their adventures online.
In November last year, Gary passed away from cancer while on tour in central Queensland.
"I actually filmed his death when he was euthanised and that sort of gave the whole arc of the story," said Dezarnaulds.
"A lot of people had been saying to me you've got to make the Gary the Goat movie, but up until he died it was just a highlights thing."
He has compiled a short from hundreds of videos shot with Gary throughout his life and hopes to have it properly edited into a movie soon.
Life-changing friendship
In the meantime Dezarnaulds is showing the rough edit at various pubs in central Queensland.
"I've got it as my edit from all the 800 videos, including his death, and it's all pieced together into a 90 minute film," he said.
Dezarnaulds said Gary changed his life for the better.
"I was in my 40s when I met Gary and I had no girlfriend, house, responsibilities, anything — I didn't even have an address," he said.
"I took on Gary as a bit of a joke but then he kind of grew on me, and I actually grew to love the responsibility of looking after him.
"And that tweaked my eye to having kids, so Gary really gave me the push along and I've got two great kids now.
"I've got them in the back of the truck cruising around Australia, so these are my new goats at the moment."
As for Dezarnaulds' future, he said he has not ruled out hitting the road with Gary's mate Kevin.
"If I can get back to what I want to do, and probably what the Gary fans want me to do, I've got this other goat called Kevin, and he was popular as well," he said.
"So his farm has given me the option to put him in the car but I've got two kids in the car and a goat and a girlfriend, so it's a bit of a jump from when I was a bloke by myself.
"So I'll just see if I can pull it off."
