Johnyy Depp's Pet Dogs, Pistol And Boo At The Gold Coast Grooming Salon (Photo : Facebook)
"Pirates Of Carribean" star Johnny Depp is in trouble over his pet dogs. The actor has received a warning from Australian quarantine authority to deport his dogs, Pistol and Boo, out of the country by Saturday or they will be put down. The actor's pet dogs are on a watch-out list as he failed to file the proper documentation and is being accused of sneaking his pets in the country.
Depp is in Australia for a past couple of months to shoot the latest instalment of "Pirates of the Carribean" franchise. The authorities have accused the star for not declaring their Yorkshire Terriers to customs officials when they flew into Queensland by private jet.
Australia is known to have strict animal quarantine laws to prevent importing infections. The dog must first be fully vaccinated and microchipped before it can get an import permit and on arrival, it must go into government quarantine for a minimum of 10 days.
Australian authorities earlier had no clue about Depp's dogs being present on the land. Their alleged illicit entry was uncovered when a local grooming salon on the Gold Coast posted pictures of them on the social media, following which biosecurity officials visited the vast Gold Coast rented accommodation of Depp and his wife Amber Heard and found the two illegally imported dogs.
"Now Mr. Depp needs to take his dogs back to California or we're going to have to euthanize them," said Barnaby Joyce, Australia's Minister of Agriculture in a televised statement, BBC reported .
It was reported earlier that the filming of the under production movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" had to be stalled in March when the 51-year-old actor cut his hand on a glass door. It seems now that he brought his pets on his return flight from U.S., where he went for the treatment.
Joyce further clarified in his statement that since Australia has cooperated a lot with the movie crew to bring in the monkeys into the country required for the shooting, the authorities are now a bit miffed by the revelation of the presence of illegally imported Depp's pets, Daily Mail reported .
