Behind The Scenes
The trainer of Arnold was Frank Inn, who trained virtually all of the animals seen in the rural television comedies of the time period, including Petticoat Junction and Beverly Hillbillies. Arnold won three Patsy Awards for Inn during the 1960s.
Inn died in 2002 and at his request, the ashes of Arnold and of the dog Higgins (who had played "Dog" on Petticoat Junction and had the title role in the 1974 film Benji) were placed in his coffin and buried with him.
Some sources point out that Arnold was actually played by a piglet. Because piglets grow quickly as they become adult pigs, this would require that at least one piglet per year had to be trained for the role of Arnold during the seven years that the show was in production.
In most episodes, Arnold was played by a female piglet.
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