PARIS, June 5 — Women do many things to get what they want from their husbands, especially if they think their actions might cause a bit of marital strife.

In the case of Salma Hayek, she decided to tell her husband Francois-Henri Pinault that she was having an affair — only so she could keep a stray puppy that she found while filming in Bulgaria.

But did Pinault take the bait?

In a preview clip for the June 9 episode of the Graham Norton Show, the 49-year-old actress can be seen explaining that her love of taking in strays and rescues had turned the couple’s home into a zoo, sometimes to the annoyance of her husband.

So when she found another furry friend that she simply had to save, she came up with what she thought would be a novel way of breaking the news to him.

“I had promised my husband I was going to stop, because at the time, I had 10 dogs, five parrots, I had alpacas, horses, cats — and by the way, one without a tail, the other one without a leg. And they always find me, they come to me, these animals — which he doesn’t believe me, but they do — and I promised him, no more,” Hayek explained in the clip.

“We were up to 30 animals,” she said. “I swore no more. And I was [filming in Bulgaria], and a little puppy who was abandoned and was going die… he came to me, and I couldn’t help it, I picked him up.”

Then it occurred to her that she had broken her promise to her husband.

“So I came up with this brilliant idea to pretend that I was having an affair,” she tells Norton in the clip. “And at the end I would say, ‘No, it’s not an affair. I picked up a dog.’ And then he would feel better.”

Hayek called her husband, saying they had something “important to discuss.” When he called back, she put her plan into action.

“I said, ‘Listen, I feel so terrible, I don’t know how to say this to you,’“ she recalled. “‘I know this is not gonna go down well, and I’m really nervous. Please have mercy on me. Have patience. Be understanding. It’s just, it’s been so stressful, and I’m so tired and I was so lonely here for so many days. And you know you do crazy things when you’re in this state!”

Needless to say, her husband didn’t fall for it and beat her to the punch.

“He said to me, ‘Oh, please don’t tell me you picked up another dog.’”

Sorry, Salma. Your husband isn’t considered one of France’s shrewdest businessmen for nothing, you know.