Washington, Feb 4 (ANI): Hollywood actor Michael Douglas has said that he silenced wife Catherine Zita-Jones' desire to have another child by gifting her a puppy.

The couple married in 2000 and share two children, Dylan, nine, and Carys, six - but 40-year-old Zeta-Jones admits she's longed to add a third baby to the family.

However, 65-year-old Douglas, who has another son, Cameron, 31, from his marriage to Diandra Luker was not too keen- so promptly decided to but buy her a pup.

"I said to him, 'Darling, I really want another baby. Or a puppy.' A puppy came by FedEx so quick," Contactmusic quoted Zeta-Jones as telling America's Us Weekly magazine.

Meanwhile, Cameron may have to face an imprisonment of at least 10 years for running a "large-scale" drug racket.

Heroin addict Cameron was taken into custody in New York in July 2009 and crystal meth worth about 12,500pounds was seized, Manhattan Superior Court was told. (ANI)