Wendy’s Terrorizing Dog Owners With A Ring Doorbell Commercial

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dog barking at Ring Doorbell from Wendy's tv spot

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Fast food chain Wendy’s has skyrocketed up the list of ‘People/Places/Things dog owners hate the most’ over the past month due to a Wendy’s TV commercial featuring the Ring Doorbell sound. Countless posts have been made across every social media platform begging Wendy’s to scrap the Ring Doorbell TV spot causing dogs everywhere to go insane and they refuse to even acknowledge the issue.

Does this TV spot from Wendy’s need to prominently feature the Ring Doorbell sound at the start of the commercial? Absolutely not. It’s a commercial about new Wendy’s Frosty flavors and it starts with the annoying doorbell sound, which millions of dogs across the country have been Pavlovian conditioned to bark when they hear it, but it’s just a group of people showing up with new Frosty flavors. The doorbell sound is needless.

Here’s the commercial which already 3x this morning has sent my 100-pound dog into a frenzy when it keeps getting played on ESPN’s SportsCenter, and as I’ve been writing up this article I forgot to ‘mute’ the speakers on my computer causing my dog to go nuts again.

The Wendy’s Ring Doorbell Commercial Is Terrorizing Dog Owners

I first took note of the Wendy’s commercial back on May 12th when I fired off this post on X (previously known as Twitter) and then went back about my business, not thinking much about it. The next time I opened X I saw about 50 notifications with replies, reposts, and likes. Obviously, I was not alone.

Flash forward a month later and the Wendy’s commercial is still running every 20 minutes on ESPN and other channels in my region and it still needlessly features the Ring Doorbell Sound. So I thought to check around X, Instagram, TikTok, and elsewhere today and dog owners everywhere are begging Wendy’s to stop.

So many dogs/pets believe it is their job to protect the home. They see the doorbell as an alert that an intruder is there. It immediately triggers barking. In my case, it’s growling and barking and my dog won’t stop for at least 10 minutes which is about 01 minutes before the commercial comes back on TV again (every 20 minutes). Do we know which channels it will run on? No. It’s a total crap shoot. But I leave the TV on all day as background white noise while working so the commercial is inevitable.

Dog Owners Beg Wendy’s To Stop

Here is what dog owners are saying on X (née Twitter) about the commercial… They’re begging it to end.

Truly, why would they put that sound in the commercial… Unless they are getting paid for it. Dog owners are furious, many saying they’ll boycott Wendy’s forever now. There has to be a reason they’re not taking it down, right? Also, will boycotting Wendy’s until they end the Ring Doorbell commercial work?

Elsewhere, dog owners are complaining about the Wendy’s Ring Doorbell commercial on Facebook, on Instagram, and on TikTok. People are basically begging Wendy’s anywhere they can to get them to stop and yet I’ve heard the commercial 4x this morning.

Searching through X/Twitter, I did see one person thanking Wendy’s for fixing the commercial and removing the Ring Doorbell sound. But their post was from 3 hours ago and my dog has lost its mind multiple times since then. I reached out to that person for comment and they said there’s a newer version where the Ring Doorbell sound is more subdued, but still there.

At this point, I have to assume Wendy’s is okay with terrorizing myself and other dog owners. There is simply no other explanation for why this has been going on for over a month.


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