PARIS HILTON - HILTON FIGHTS TO KEEP FERRET PETS

LATEST: Socialite PARIS HILTON is calling for California Governor ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER's help as she fights to keep her pet ferrets.

The hotel heiress let slip that she owns two ferrets, called DOLCE and GABBANA, when she recently appeared on JAY LENO's THE TONIGHT SHOW in America.

And the confession has led to a public outcry because Californians are banned from keeping mustelids as pets.

So now, Hilton is hoping to change the law and is joining a group urging Schwarzenegger, who co-starred with a ferret in KINDERGARTEN COP, to give polecat lovers in his state a break.

She says, "I wish there was a law that ferrets were legal because I don't think that's a fair law."

The proposed law that Hilton is backing would give ferret owners amnesty for vaccinated, neutered ferrets.