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 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 been keeping, breeding, and selling cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching bird flu outbreaks come and go, and watching customers navigate genuine confusion about what the rules actually require of them as pet bird owners. The Avian … 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 selling birds to new owners, watching what happens next, and noticing the patterns that most individual owners never have the vantage point to see. The pattern he … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching UK pet welfare standards evolve. The UK government published a comprehensive Animal Welfare Strategy for England in December 2025, setting out reforms that will affect millions of UK pet owners through 2030 — including UK … 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 what people buy to bring birds into their gardens, and why. UK bird feeder sales have climbed to their highest level on record this year. That sounds … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988. He has watched hedgehog sightings in local gardens decline steadily over those decades — a pattern that lines up closely with what The Wildlife Trusts and other conservation bodies have been documenting nationally. This guide explains what is actually happening, what … 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 watching the population of garden birds outside the shop change as much as the birds inside it. This year’s Big Garden Birdwatch results, released by the RSPB, paint a … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of conversations with British gardeners about the wild birds they support and the changes affecting them. A genuinely positive UK news story has been quietly unfolding over recent years — more than fifty UK councils have now … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold small animals and birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years that have included the pandemic shortages of 2020 and 2021, the post-Brexit supply disruptions, and several periods where specific pet foods and supplies were difficult or impossible to source. … Read more