No more sitting pets

Pets in Minecraft should be fun and free, for more than a decade pets seem like slaves by always having to sit, because otherwise they would not stop following us.

Pets such as cats, wolves or parrots should have a mechanic that fills our worlds with atmosphere by making them walk through our buildings. This will not only make the immersion in the game better, but also make our houses and patios fill with life. to have another mechanic for the wolf that would be the protector, this would make it attack enemies within its radius of action.

Remastering the AI is a mandatory step for these mobs and giving them greater intelligence, maybe they can play with each other?

How could this be done?

Cats and wolves: selecting a bed for them (for example) would make them have a radius of action and move around it with the bed being the midpoint of said radius. In this way we could see our pets sit, lie down and move around the range at will.

Parrots: adding a parrot house would make these pets fly and land around them and a few more blocks, they could also serve to make noises from the nearest mobs and warn us of danger.

This could be a step towards better AI for our pets and for our buildings to be filled with life, atmosphere and immersion.

What would you add and what would you change?