“California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger… showed off the cowboy boots he planned to send to Texas Gov. Rick Perry after USC lost the Rose Bowl.

The boots, complete with California state seal and the governor’s name, are made of hornback crocodile, according to the governor’s office. State law says it is illegal to import with an intent to sell products made of crocodile, polar bear and 22 other animals.

But the boots were custom-made for Schwarzenegger by a Texas boot-maker—and thereby likely avoids the “intent to sell” aspect of the law.”

(Gary Delsohn of The Bee’s Capitol Bureau contributed to this report. Distributed by Scripps-McClatchy Western Service, http://www.shns.com.)

Personally, I’d wager the Governor Schwarzenegger’s boots were made by Tres Outlaws. FYI— Governor Perry put up a pair of Justins. (Click here for the Donor List)