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From: heneghan@cbnewse.ATT.COM (joseph.t.heneghan)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR Biting Conure
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Date: 8 Dec 89 16:58:07 GMT
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Reply-To: heneghan@cbnewse.ATT.COM (joseph.t.heneghan,ihp,)
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My 4 month old Nanday tries that occasionally. I think it's the "what
can I get away with" attitude so prevelant in our society. So I tell
my children to do what I do. Yell at him "NO!!!!!!" and push his head
away briskly. This seems to do it. I suspect he forgets. My kids
spend a moderate amount of time with him, but he has bonded to me pretty
much. They're comfortable enough to let him taste their hands, which
to the casual observer, looks like a bite. If they get too wild with him
he just flies back up to the top of his cage and sits, probably thinking
"those little people are nuts, I wish they'd be like the big people"
					Joe Heneghan