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Thank you for all the great information on this website! I read through the whole thing first so that I didn't ask you a question you already answered. One more thing before I ask my questions...Pinto, Nazo, and Santo Mario are soo cute!!! Great pick with those birds!!!

Okay, I'm planning on getting one parakeet for starters, train it, and then buy another. But, on this site you said when you get a second keet put it in a small cage and get the two to like each other. But, won't you first have to finger train your keet in the small cage before you can take him out to play with the other? Also, would a keet and hamster be okay with their cages in the same room,or not? How loud are keets and what time of day do they chirp the most. Can keets really eat oranges? My friend's parakeet,Epiphany, died after one year (she got it from a bin-o-budgies) was it most likely because of malnutrition or old age. I'm eventually planning on getting three birds Coco, Estee (pronounced Estay), and I can't think of a third. Any suggestions? Also, I read that you can train a parakeet to go poop on command so that they don't go outside of their cages. Is this true? I have a hamster, will a parakeet be harder or easier to take care of? Well, thanks in advanced for answering my many questions!

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I actually do have many of these issues covered on the site, but I can recap for you. Yes you always have to finger train keets before they come out, so that would be true for a first and a second keet. Yes keets and hamsters can be in the same room but obviously not in the same cage! Every keet has a different personality and chooses to chirp or not chirp based on what they are like. Some keets are in rooms with lots of noise (say the TV running) and warble along with it all day. Some keets are in quiet rooms and sit there silent (and sad).

Parakeets can live up to 20 years so a keet will NOT die in a year from old age!!!

Yes you can sort of train a keet to poop when you tell it to, but that doesn't help much ... because if they need to poop again when they're hanging out elsewhere, they won't fly back to their cage. So it'd be a royal pain to every 10 minutes drag your keet back to the cage just in case they have to poop again. I have many pages on this topic, poops are just little dried lumps of seed mush in essence, you clean them up like you would any dirt.

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