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 run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling pet birds and receiving the calls that no bird owner ever wants to make. This summer, as in every summer before it, those calls are coming in. But not for the reason most people expect. … 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 giving out garden bird feeding advice that, until recently, had not changed in any fundamental way for decades. The RSPB’s 2026 update genuinely overturns several long-standing recommendations. This … 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 what happens when new owners are told the right things before they take a bird home, and what happens when they are not. In 2026, more UK families are getting pet … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling budgerigars, cockatiels, canaries, finches, and watching which birds genuinely thrive in UK homes and which ones struggle. In 2026, the budgerigar remains the UK’s most popular pet bird by a considerable margin. This is his … Read more
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