What about people with birds and a dog?
Birds make excellent watchers, because they give different vocalizations depending on what they see. I can tell who is coming home by my birds who look out the window and start to great the different members of my family. They also comment on the wild life in my back yard, distinguishing between scary hawks and owls, and friendly deer and possums, etc.
The best calls are when it is something they have not seen before.
The dog doesn’t even wake up.
Birds would make great pets...but they wouldn’t last in my house, unfortunately.
Birds are by far the most intelligent pets. When was the last time anyone’s dog greeted them by name and asked them how their day was, in English?
Never.
My son use to have a parrot and a miniture poodle. They both barked and you couldn’t tell which was the dog and which was the bird...