UK pet and bird welfare news explained by Paradise Pets Swindon, with practical advice for bird owners, small-pet keepers and families in Wiltshire.
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 the people who love them. The RSPB and British Trust for Ornithology published their joint Climate Change and UK Birds report on 1st July … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping birds and watching garden wildlife at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988. The robin is the garden bird most UK owners feel they know best — and in some ways the one they understand least. The RSPB and BTO’s Climate Change and UK Birds report, published … 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 budgerigars, cockatiels, canaries, finches, and dozens of other species. A new study published in the journal Biological Conservation this July has quantified, for the first … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept and sold cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years watching UK bird health, wild and captive. A study published today in Biological Conservation finds that Bass Rock in Scotland and Grassholm in Wales — two of the world’s largest gannet colonies … 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 how changes in the natural world eventually reach the birds in people’s homes. The RSPB and British Trust for Ornithology published their Climate Change and UK … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with budgies, cockatiels, canaries, and aviary birds. The APHA’s bird flu prevention guidance was restructured and reissued in June 2026 following the lifting of the Avian Influenza Prevention … 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 the intersection between garden bird welfare and cage bird health more closely than most. The RSPB’s April 2026 guidance — built around the phrase “just one … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold guinea pigs and rabbits at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of helping UK families make one of the most common pet decisions British households face when choosing a first small animal pet for children or family life. The guinea … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling cage birds and small animals at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching UK pet ownership trends change, accelerate, and occasionally go badly wrong. Exotic pet ownership in the UK has grown roughly 60 percent since 2000, a … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold pet birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching UK bird welfare evolve, both in homes and out in British gardens. The RSPB has genuinely changed its garden bird feeding guidance for 2026 — asking UK bird owners … Read more