Pete Davidson's expletive-filled PETA rant leads rival organization to launch billboard biting back

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Pete Davidson is getting some biting support in the form of a new billboard in New York City's Times Square. The advocacy organization, PETA Kills Animals, has stood up for the comedian's decision to purchase a puppy, rather than adopt one, after Davidson became barking mad at PETA.

The anti-PETA group claims the animal activists are more likely to kill cats and dogs than find homes for them.The billboard barks back with a play on Davidson's "big d--- energy" (BDE) – which in this case stands for "buy dog energy." "Obviously, that… term [BDE] has sort of become synonymous with Pete Davidson in popular culture," a spokesperson for PETA Kills Animals told Fox News Digital. "And when we saw that PETA and Pete were essentially going back and forth over Pete's decision to purchase a dog for his mother, we saw an opportunity to sort of have a tongue in cheek play on words that would capture folks' attention, but also help us bring to light sort of the most prominent part of the story for us – which is that PETA is an organization that is more likely to kill cats and dogs than rehome them." "When you look at the government record, [PETA] actually ended up euthanizing 74% of the dogs that came into [PETA's] Virginia shelter in 2022." The billboard company has been bombarded by PETA supporters upset over the ad, Fox News Digital has learned. "PETA is afraid people will learn the truth about its slaughterhouse shelter, where PETA has killed close to 50,000 cats and dogs over the last 25 years," PETAKillsAnimals.com spokesperson Will Coggin said about the reaction. "Donors and the public deserve to know that PETA had a 74% kill rate at its shelter last year." PETA responded to the billboard in a statement to Fox News Digital.