Johnny Depp’s Dogs Face Death in Australia During New ‘Pirates of the Caribbean' Film Shoot

The Australian government has given Johnny Depp an ultimatum regarding his two Yorkshire Terriers. Either they be sent back to the United States or the dogs have to be put down. The reasoning behind this is because Depp failed to declare the dogs would be flying in with him as he shot Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

The Department of Agriculture's minister Barnaby Joyce made the announcement Thursday.

"He has decided to bring to our nation two dogs without actually getting proper certification and the proper permits required. Basically, it looks like he snuck them in," Joyce said. "We found out he snuck them in because we saw him taking them to a poodle groomer."

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Upon finding the dogs the Australian government gave Depp 50 hours to remove the Terriers from their country. The country has strict biosecurity measures in order to keep out diseases the likes of leptospirosis and rabies.

In the press, Joyce went on to insult Depp's two dogs:

"It's time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States," Joyce said. "He can put them on the same chartered jet he flew out on to fly them back out of our nation."

While the agriculture spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon is also unhappy about Depp's dogs entering the country, he has taken an even harder stance against Joyce. He says Joyce is just showing off to the media by covering up his failures.

"Instead of grandstanding before the media, Barnaby Joyce should be answering the hard questions about the breach and what role his biosecurity funding cuts may have played," Fitzgibbon says

In honor of Depp's dogs an online petition has been put together to protect the two terriers from Joyce. The petition has asked for 10,000 signatures and is only a few hundred away from getting them.

"This seems so extreme and unnecessary. He shouldn't kill these cute dogs simply because Depp didn't follow particular rules," the petition states.