KELLAN LUTZ: I am in my backyard in L.A. hanging out with my two dogs.

JACOBS: Who are your dogs?

LUTZ: Kola is a shepherd-husky mix I adopted from the Compton animal shelter. Kevin is the newest, most adorable member of our family. He’s a Chihuahua. I found him on the street when I came back from one of my trips.

JACOBS: You spent time on a dairy farm in Iowa while you were growing up?

LUTZ: Iowa is where the big farm was, where my grandparents lived. After my parents divorced, we would visit them. My mom would send me out to the pigpen, where we had these huge, huge pigs. I would stand there for six hours holding a hose, watering pigs. They’d dive in the mud and shake it off, and I’d go home covered in it. I loved the whole thing of getting wet and dirty and then getting in a warm bath.

JACOBS: You also have experience spraying crops and building silos. Are you aware of how this story reads in New York and L.A.? Anything involving uncontrived hard labor is irresistible to the style industry.

LUTZ: I’d rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I’d fly out there and help out around the farm. We’d tear barns down; we’d build barns. I’d rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

A lucky stray Chihuahua is now snuggling up to Twilight star Kellan Lutz. For dog lovers and vampire fans, Lutz is a looking like a pup hero to us! He found the Chihuahua wandering in his neighborhood with another canine. Having a soft spot for dogs, Lutz took the little furry creature in, only to find out that he had parvo.

Luckily, the Chihuahua survived the deadly virus (for which dogs can be vaccinated) and Lutz named him Kevin. Now, Lutz’s other rescued pup, Kola, has a pal to hang out with at the dog park!