Originally Posted by
PlaxMacaws
I tend to agree with Helena. In my opinion, keeping some distance between them may be your best option. That doesn't necessarily entail positioning their cages out of view from one another. But you could certainly do that. One problem in any approach is that Max knows Katie lives there with him. Considering his interest in her, he's not likely to forget she's his housemate - which would remain the case even if he were unable to see her from his cage. As such, perhaps the most you should expect is to be able to mitigate Max's level of passion for Katie by consistently keeping them several feet apart. The closer he becomes to her, the more his passions will escalate.
My B&G and my Military were bond mates for decades. Once I brought another macaw into the mix, my Military became a death machine bent on killing my poor B&G (who adored him for so long). That was in 2005. I had to physically separate the two on a permanent basis in order to protect my B&G. He thus became extremely upset and started plucking. His feelings of devastation lasted for many years thereafter. While he currently accepts an absence of physical contact with my Military, he's still quite protective of him. If I remove the Military from his view he flips out. While ours has been an extreme case, it may serve as an example of how terrible things can become between bonded birds. If my Military had not become vicious toward my B&G, I'd likely have left them together.
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