Gotham needs some ‘paw’ and order.

Shady dog dealers are illegally selling puppies out of the trunk of a Mercedes SUV for thousands of dollars, The Post has learned.

At least two men were caught on video Oct. 23 and posted on TikTok brazenly hawking close to a dozen miniature and toy poodles in broad daylight in the Diamond District — despite the state banning dog sales and the city outlawing backyard breeding last year.

This video taken October 23 shows two men hawking newborn puppies of the trunk of a car in Midtown Manhattan. TikTok/@isacsavage

“You can probably get $3,500 to $4,500 for the dog,” barks one of the men to about eight people gathered around the car on West 47th Street.

“Because they’re going to be so small,” said the pooch peddler, dressed in black, about the price. “They got everything – they got shots,” he said of the tiny 9-week-old pups packed in the back of the SUV, which had sawdust spread around the trunk.

“They’re almost – they’re basically going to be teacups,” he bragged about the cuddly merchandise. “Because this is considered a toy.”

The man also boasted the puppies were AKC certified – a designation from the American Kennel Club that recognizes a dog as purebred.

The men popped up on more than one occasion. On Oct. 17, a Post reporter witnessed the men plying their trade at the same spot on West 47th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues around 2 pm.

At least eight puppies are seen in the video in the trunk of the SUV. TikTok/@isacsavage

Some eyewitnesses were horrified.

“I couldn’t look at them, it just made me so sad,” said one passerby and animal lover.

“This is 100% illegal,” Allie Taylor, President of Voters for Animal Rights told The Post. “That’s why we passed the backyard breeder bill, because we knew that going after pet stores wasn’t going to be enough – that there were multiple sources where people were getting dogs from.”

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The truck sales have been going on since at least the summer.

A white Mercedes SUV with no license plates was spotted on Canal Street and Broadway on Aug. 1, in a photo shared on Facebook.

An identical-looking Mercedes SUV with puppies in the trunk was spotted on Canal Street in August. Facebook/NYC & LI DOGS THAT NEED RESCUE

“Absolutely horrible,” raged the anonymous social media poster, who said the puppies looked “sick” and that they called police.

The NYPD did not answer The Post’s question about the August incident.

An Instagram video shared the next day by the account New Yorkers showed the same puppies in a shopping cart on Canal Street, amid a sea of knock-off Saint-Laurent and Goyard wallets.

“Yo, Canal’s anything,” a man is heard saying in the video. “Buddy got dogs for sale. You heard on Canal Street. Buddy got dogs on Canal Street for sale. I swear you could buy anything from here.”

The puppies were filmed in a shopping cart being taken on busy Canal Street for sale. Instagram/@1chafe

Last December, the Empire State’s Puppy Mill Pipeline Act outlawed the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits from stores, which were considered brokers or dealers for puppy mills. Since then, New Yorkers can only buy dogs directly from a responsible breeder – or adopt from a shelter.

Brian Shapiro, New York State director of the nonprofit Humane World for Animals, said there’s a “probably zero” chance the trunk pups came from a responsible breeder.

One of the men bragged about the puppies being “so small” to justify the price. TikTok/@isacsavage

“The concept of a consumer having faith that they’re bringing a well-bred safe animal into their home means knowing the background of the person who is selling the animal and where the animal was raised.”

“Guy rolls up in a car, pops the trunk, and there’s a bunch of puppies. That’s the furthest thing from a responsible breeder,” he slammed.

“There’s so much money involved, pet dealers and wannabe pet stores will find ways to try to push the system to try to be creative with the law.”

One of the men in the video says most of the puppies were 9-weeks old. TikTok/@isacsavage

Shapiro said the AKC papers should not reassure anyone tempted to buy a trunk puppy.

“Any animal from the worst breeder can have AKC papers,” he said. “It means nothing.”

While no law explicitly prohibits selling out of a trunk, the NYC Health Code forbids selling any animal from residences and other unlicensed facilities, the ASPCA told The Post.