Neil - Owner, Paradise Pets Swindon 
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 in every kind of domestic environment, from the well-designed and enriching to the bare and inadequate. A budgie climbing its cage bars is something almost every owner sees, … Read more
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. A budgie with a bald or thinning head is one of the most common health concerns he sees owners bring in … 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 first-hand experience with these birds. In that time, he has answered the “can my budgie eat…” question more times than he can count, with strawberries being one of the most common … 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 hearing owners describe their bird being sick and having to explain, carefully, why the answer depends entirely on what they actually saw. Vomiting and regurgitation in budgies look similar from a … 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 first-hand experience with these birds. In that time, he has helped hundreds of UK owners through one of the most worrying things to witness — one budgie suddenly attacking another in … 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 first-hand experience with these birds. One budgie picking on another is one of the most common multi-bird problems he sees — and one of the most consistently misread. Most owners either … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, sold, and advised on budgerigars at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these birds. A bleeding beak is one of the most alarming things a budgie owner can encounter, and it is also one of the situations where the … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling rabbits at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily first-hand experience with these animals and the people who keep them. Night thumping is one of the most common rabbit complaints owners bring to the counter — and one … 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 bites its owner is one of the most common behaviour complaints he hears — and one of the … 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. Mirror behaviour is one of the most commonly misunderstood things budgie owners observe — and one of the … Read more