I wish i had a pet crow to go out with me, they are the best animals for that, you don't need to keep an eye on them constantly, you know they are smart enough to avoid all dangers, they will scream if they lost you, they are a nice way to help you find a path or find a pray while hunting /out/side and they don't scare animals whereas when a dog find for example a deer if the deer sees the dog then good luck running to catch it back

the only problem is that they are hard to befriend at the first place but when they see that you're good then they will never forget you and will always come back and follow you