Do not ever flick or pull on your lovebird's beak. Do not ever slap or hit your lovebird. These might seem like obvious rules, but some frustated lovebird owners have overreacted to an unexpected bite in these ways. Dropping your lovebird to the floor after bite is a highly ineffective way of training. It merely teaches your lovebird that you are an unreliable perch that cannot be trusted. The lovebird might be shocked into temporary submission but might not be so eager to step up onto your hand the next time you put it into the cage. Aggressive training methods are simply lazy training methods. Even screaming at your lovebird can merely antagonize it and cause it to act more agressively. In fact, if your lovebird has developed an annoying habit of screaming or calling obsessively, chances are reinforced this by reacting, either by screaming or by using some other deterrent. Some people will hit the cage or shake it to stop the noise, but this is interaction. Just like a two-year-old child, any interaction is better than no interaction. You will find these tactics merely increase the behaviors rather than stop them.