Johnny Depp's Dogs In Danger

“It’s time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States.”

 Dog groomers Lianne and Ellie Kent  with Pistol (left) and Boo.
Photograph: Happy Dogz

A VISIT to an Australian dog groomer has put actor Johnny Depp's two Yorkshire terriers on death row, at risk of being euthanised. Now the media is ablaze with speculation on whether the two adorable pets will get a reprieve from the governor.

The dogs, Pistol and Boo, face lethal injection or deportation because, say the authorities, they are in the country illegally after arriving on Depp's private plane. The actor is in the country filming Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce said he became aware of the terriers after they were spotted at a dog groomer's called Happy Dogz on the Gold Coast.

Under Australian biosecurity laws, any dog must complete a minimum 10-day period in an Australian quarantine facility, or “it may be returned to the country of export or euthanised at the importer’s expense”.

Australia has extremely strict quarantine regulations because so much of its flora and fauna is unique, and sometimes has no inbuilt resistance to foreign disease or bacteria.



Joyce is adamant that the law must be obeyed. He said: “Just because he’s Johnny Depp doesn’t make him exempt from Australian laws.

“If we start letting movie stars, even though they've been [voted] the sexiest man alive twice, to come into our nation, then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?

“It’s time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States.  He can put them on the same chartered jet he flew out on to fly them back out of our nation.”

He has given Depp 50 hours to remove the dogs from the country.

Now a campaign has started to save the two dogs. The hashtag #waronterrier is trending on Twitter and more than 2,000 people have signed petition to save the pups.