Neil - Owner, Paradise Pets Swindon 
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 people who feed them. The diet question is the one he answers most often and the one where the gap between what … 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 first-hand experience with this species and close working relationships with the avian vets who treat them. The leading cause of sudden, unexplained pet bird deaths in summer is one that genuinely … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching UK summers change around the animals in his care. This summer, the British Veterinary Association has published urgent hot weather guidance for pet owners across all species, alongside the … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988. This article is about a specific, real situation that comes to him at the counter several times a year in various forms — an owner who loses a bird suddenly and cannot understand why. In almost … 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 watching UK families make pet purchase decisions across every season, and observing what specific patterns produce good long-term outcomes versus what patterns produce welfare compromises. UK school summer … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily experience with cage birds and a lifelong interest in wild birds beyond the shop walls. This summer, as it does every summer, the twitching world has been mobilising across … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling pet birds and watching, alongside that trade, what has been happening to wild birds around the world. The latest IUCN data shows 61 per cent of bird species in decline globally. The race to save … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching which birds come into fashion, which ones stay, and which ones produce a wave of rehoming enquiries six months after the trend peaks. Lovebirds have been gaining ground in the UK pet bird market in … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold birds and small animals at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching how people buy pets, and what goes wrong when the decision gets made at a screen rather than in person. This is his honest warning about buying … 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 the Budgerigar Society’s show world run parallel to the world of ordinary pet budgie keeping, mostly without the two worlds ever meeting. The 2026 show season is underway. Most UK … Read more