Johnny Depp's pet dogs could be put down or sent back to the United States from Australia after the star reportedly failed to declare them when he entered Australia.
Johnny Depp, 51, and his wife Amber Heard, 29, flew by private jet into Brisbane in April to film "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales".
The pair was travelling with pet yorkshire terriers Boo and Pistol but did not declare them, the Courier Mail reports.
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce says the dogs will be put down unless the actor removes them from Australia.
"It's time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States," Mr Joyce told reporters in Canberra on Thursday, after authorities found Depp "snuck in" the Yorkshire Terriers on his private jet last month.
Mr Joyce's Labor counterpart Joel Fitzgibbon has also weighed in on the issue, saying that the Agriculture Minister was distracting people from the "key issue".
Mr Fitzgibbon said Mr Joyce was threatening the dogs over "a serious failing in our biosecurity system".
"How was the breach of our border security allowed to occur in the first place?" he said.
"By Barnaby Joyce’s own admission, the undeclared entry was only detected when the dogs were seen entering a 'poodle groomer'."
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