Patrick Schwarzenegger Shares Details About Dad Arnold's 'Dr. Doolittle' Meets 'Mid-life Crisis' Life with His Many Pets

Arnold Schwarzenegger is embracing his "mid-life crisis" by adopting a mini menagerie of animals, his boy Patrick says.

During an quality connected SiriusXM's Literally! With Rob Lowe connected Thursday, May 29, Patrick, 31, opened up astir his celebrated character dad's postulation of animals, which has grown to see mini horses, pigs and a donkey complete nan past respective years.

"I emotion that Arnold has nan mini horse and nan pig… it makes maine want to do that," Lowe, 61, told Patrick during nan episode.

"He has wholly embraced this caller benignant of enactment of life," nan White Lotus star replied, speaking astir his 77-year-old dad. "It's conscionable ... Doctor Doolittle meets this mid-life crisis, but happiness and calmer broadside of life. It's really funny."

"You've seen it, but this image of him holding tribunal astatine his meal array pinch a cigar successful his rima and nan miniature donkey down him connected nan correct broadside and nan miniature pony connected nan near broadside and nan pig correct beneath his feet eating, and past nan small chihuahua connected his lap, and past nan monolithic 180 lb Malamute husky complete location adjacent to nan horse," Patrick continued.

"It's conscionable for illustration they person each of them surrounding Arnold. He has definite meals, he has nan oatmeal cookies, nan homemade oatmeal cookies that are bully for nan horses. He's sewage typical meals for nan dog. He's sewage nan crockery that nan pig loves," nan character added. "It's conscionable it's retired of a movie. It really is."

The erstwhile California politician has grown his pet postulation steadily complete nan past respective years. In April 2023, he adopted Schnelly Schwarzenegger ("Chnell" intends "fast" successful German), a pig. He is besides a proud proprietor of a donkey named Lulu, a miniature horse, Whiskey, and respective dogs.

During his speech pinch Lowe, Patrick and nan Parks & Recreation alum besides discussed rumors astir a imaginable show aliases movie successful improvement astir Arnold and his galore pets.

"Apparently. Brian, our friend Brian Grazer, has a movie he's processing astir Arnold and nan animals," Lowe said, referring to nan shaper and Ron Howard's predominant collaborator. "Every clip I spot Brian... I support saying, 'What's going connected pinch nan Arnold animal movie?' Because honestly, I don't cognize thing I'd alternatively spot than a movie astir Arnold and his animals."

"I americium down to spot that. I saw him virtually yesterday and he brought it up," Patrick revealed. "I'm hoping that it happens."

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The FUBAR star sometimes shares footage of his pets connected Instagram. In a station past year, he shared a video of himself and his pig retired for an day stroll.

“Nothing for illustration a Tuesday greeting locomotion pinch my Schnelly!” the Terminator talent wrote successful an Instagram caption astatine nan time.

The clip showed nan pig pursuing intimately down Schwarzenegger, oinking each nan way.