Neil 
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling bird food, feeders, and watching how advice in this trade has shifted over the decades. The RSPB’s new feeding guidance for summer 2026 is the most significant change to mainstream bird feeding advice he has … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgerigars at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with this species. The RSPB’s updated guidance on trichomonosis this summer is genuinely significant, and budgie owners specifically keep asking me what it actually means for them. This is … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with both garden birds and pet birds. Trichomonosis, the disease currently driving major declines in UK garden birds, is mostly written about in terms of wild … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of helping UK owners protect their birds through every major British avian disease event. The UK has been through one of the most significant bird flu seasons in recent memory across 2025-2026, … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgerigars at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with this species, including several genuinely dangerous UK heatwaves. With Met Office Amber Extreme Heat Warnings in place and temperatures forecast to reach 38°C this week, this is his … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling budgerigars and watching owners make the same preventable mistakes again and again. In 2026, with avian veterinary costs at record levels, those mistakes are more expensive than ever. This is his honest account of what … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgerigars at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with this species. One single cage mistake accounts for more budgie health and behaviour problems than everything else combined. This is his honest explanation of what it is, why … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching UK pet shops continue to sell one specific item that genuinely harms British budgies, despite mounting welfare research showing the damage it causes. The item is still on UK pet … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching these birds live and watching them die, and gradually developing a clear view of why the average UK pet budgie lives significantly shorter than it should. This article is his … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily first-hand experience with these birds and the parasites that affect them. Mites are among the most common and most consistently under-checked health risks in UK pet budgies — not … Read more