Oh no Pistol and Boo, looks like your days Down Under are numbered – if the words of Australian agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce are anything to go by.

The wonderfully named Joyce has laid down the law and is clearly unimpressed with Depp’s attempts to circumnavigate Australian animal immigration policies. The Hollywood heavyweight flew his pooches in via private plane last month for the filming of yet another Pirates of the Caribbean, failing to declare his canine passengers to the relevant authorities.

Here is the Guardian with the brutal ultimatim issued by Joyce:

“Mr Depp has to either take his dogs back to California or we are going to have to euthanise them. He’s now got about 50 hours left to remove the dogs.”

Australia’s strict biosecurity measures are in place in order to keep out canine diseases such as the bacterial infection leptospirosis and rabies.

The agriculture minister said no one should be able to bypass biosecurity rules, even if they had been voted the world’s sexiest man twice.

You can watch the full verbal barrage up top, all of which prompted opposition agricultural spokesperson Joel Fitzgibbon to accuse Joyce of making the pooches ‘walk the plank’.

Depp now has around 40 hours to sort out some kind of solution, his dogs having been discovered after he took them to a poodle groomer.

I imagine somewhere out there Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are planning a dark and devious form of retribution. Remember this story next time you think we are the only country in the world where politics often seem farcical.

[source:guardian]