American actor Johnny Depp has been told he has until Saturday to remove his dogs from Australia or they face being put down.
Depp and his wife, Amber Heard, are accused of not declaring Yorkshire Terriers Boo and Pistol to customs officials when they flew into Queensland by private jet last month.
Australia has strict quarantine laws to prevent the accidental import of animal disease and infections, and Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce said the laws applied to everyone.
"Mr Depp has to either take his dogs back to California or we're going to have to euthanise them," Mr Joyce told journalists.
"He's now got about 50 hours left to remove the dogs. He can put them on the same charter jet he flew out on and fly back out of our nation."
The dogs' illicit re-entry appears to have been uncovered after a grooming salon on the Gold Coast posted pictures of them on its Facebook page, causing Biosecurity officials to visit the house Depp and Heard are renting.
There has been no immediate comment from Depp or Heard, while an online petition to save the dogs had received nearly 5,000 signatures by late on Thursday (May 14) local time in Australia.
But Joyce remains adamant. "If we start letting movie stars even though they've been the 'sexiest man alive' twice to come into our nation, then why don't we just break the laws for everybody?" he said.
"It's time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States," he added.
