--- title: This Compilation of Dogs Skyping with Absent Owners Will Make You Howl Too description: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTPEV1Jjr_Y&w=560&h=315] Dogs have an interesting relationship with technology: They still fear the vacuum cleaner and they still bark at cars, but they've managed to master... canonical: https://time.com/3653365/dogs-skyping-with-owners/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-05T12:29:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:12.978Z og:title: This Compilation of Dogs Skyping with Absent Owners Will Make You Howl Too og:description: Dogs still fear the vacuum cleaner, but now they've mastered video chat. og:url: https://time.com/3653365/dogs-skyping-with-owners/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Compilation of Dogs Skyping with Absent Owners Will Make You Howl Too twitter:description: Dogs still fear the vacuum cleaner, but now they've mastered video chat. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Compilation of Dogs Skyping with Absent Owners Will Make You Howl Too by [Drew Mackie / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Drew Mackie / People Contributor Jan 5, 2015 12:29 PM UTC by [Drew Mackie / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Drew Mackie / People Contributor Jan 5, 2015 12:29 PM UTC Dogs have an interesting relationship with technology: They still fear the vacuum cleaner and they still bark at cars, but they’ve managed to master Skype. Until now. As the above video above, a series of absentee owners check in with their pooches electronically, and every animal seems to have a lot to say. It’s very tempting to translate all this “dog talk” into inquiries about where the owners have gone, when they’re coming back and what presents they’re bringing back with them. But who are we kidding? We’re not fluent in dog, and all of that howling could just as easily be confusion about how their owners got trapped in the magic picture box. Meanwhile, here’s to conquering that fear of the vacuum cleaner in 2015. ### 10 Puppies That Look Even More Adorable Underwater  Pringles & Pickme Seth Casteel  Monty Seth Casteel  Popsicle Seth Casteel  Ginger Seth Casteel  Ruger Seth Casteel  Rolley Seth Casteel  Iggy Seth Casteel  Reason Seth Casteel  Corey Seth Casteel [_This article originally appeared on People.com_](http://www.peoplepets.com/people/pets/article/0,,20888569,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3653365/dogs-skyping-with-owners/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3653365/dogs-skyping-with-owners/"},"headline":"This Compilation of Dogs Skyping with Absent Owners Will Make You Howl Too","datePublished":"2015-01-05T12:29:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:12.978Z","description":"[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTPEV1Jjr_Y&w=560&h=315] Dogs have an interesting relationship with technology: They still fear the vacuum cleaner and they still bark at cars, but they've managed to master...","url":"https://time.com/3653365/dogs-skyping-with-owners/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Drew Mackie / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3653365/dogs-skyping-with-owners/","name":"This Compilation of Dogs Skyping with Absent Owners Will Make You Howl Too"}}]}] ```