their is nobody home for about eight hours a day exept weekends other than that at least one person is home so under these circimstances wich bird would you recomend? also for the noisier parrots i asked about, at what times are they noisiest and are they quieter in the evening? we also have two dogs one of wich got jelous of our last bird, do you have any advice on how i can get dogs to at least tolerate a bird? thank you for all the info.