Pair of Untrained Keets are Wild

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i have two keets. Mines name is Tony and my sisters is Pie. Mine is green and hers is blue. My bird is really nice and dosent bite, she was really good when i got her on my birthday intell my sister got her's. Pie when he got into the cage with mine fought with her and bite her. She felt afended because he was on her fav. perch. Well my sisters bird was evil it could bite through three pairs of rubber gloves, i never held it and niether did my sister. I guess she didnt really wont one. Well anyway my sister got a seperate cage. But tony missed him and he missed her. So i put Pie in mines cage. It was good for a while but then Pie was always attacking tony, i think they love each other but why is he doing this. Oh and when my bird wants food Pie attacks her so he can eat it all! Now i think Pie just needs to be held more, but he bites so hard! How can i get him to be nicer to me and Tony? And ever since i put Pie in tony's cage shes been meaner and dosent feel like coming out of the cage with me, when ever i take her out she just want back in! How can i make her want to be held and cuddle with me like she used to? And how can i make Pie not be so evil?

Lisa's Answer
It really sounds like you should not have these keets together - and that you need to put serious work into hand training them. You should not have your hand threatening them so they feel like they have to bite it. I have full instructions on my website on how to hand train a bird.

First, separate them so they are not being stressed out. That is going to be critical to the success of the hand training.

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