Kissing a Keet

User Question
We have had our very young keet for a month. He is relatively hand trained (if your finger is close by, he will hop on to it.) For a week or so, he will stay on our hand outside the cage and let us kiss him etc. Right now however he bites your lip (hard) if you try to kiss him. He doesn't seem upset or scared or want to fly back to the cage. What sort of training would you recommend?

Thanks

Lisa's Answer
I know kissing seems cute, but it's really not a good idea. The things that you eat can be poisonous to a keet (chocolate for example) and your human saliva isn't great for a keet. It's really best not to kiss a keet. Your keet sees a giant mouth coming towards it that could easily eat it whole (and humans in its native Australia did eat budgies). So it's not unusual for the keet not to be fond of this movement :)

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