Neil - Owner, Paradise Pets Swindon 
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has sold and kept budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with one of the UK’s most popular cage birds. “Why does my budgie stare at me?” is one of the most common questions he hears from new owners — and … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling hamsters at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily first-hand experience with these animals and the people who keep them. Night wheel running is the complaint that comes to the counter most often from parents of children who … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling gerbils at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily first-hand experience with these animals and the owners who keep them. In that time, he has watched gerbils thrive for five years in the right hands, and seen them … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has sold and kept cockatiels at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with one of the UK’s most popular cage birds. A cockatiel that is suddenly sleeping more than usual is one of the most common concerns owners bring to the counter … 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 people who keep them. Cage bar licking is a behaviour that comes up at the counter regularly — and the answers range … 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 owners who keep them. A budgie flying into objects — walls, windows, mirrors, cage bars — is a sign that most owners … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily first-hand experience with birds and the people who love them. In that time he has watched which species capture people most completely, which ones become genuine … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years watching how gardens and the birds that use them change across the seasons. The weeks immediately before nesting season are, in his view, the most important and the most consistently overlooked window … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping and selling cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching birds behave in ways that most people walk past without noticing. He has kept robins in the garden at the shop for most of those years, watched … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping and selling birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily engagement with birds of all kinds, wild and captive. In that time he has watched the house sparrow go from a bird so ubiquitous that nobody gave it a second … Read more