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 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
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has owned and run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling cage and aviary birds to families, individuals, and couples across Swindon and the surrounding area. People searching for birds for sale in Swindon usually arrive at this shop with a species already half-decided, … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling birds to families and watching what happens next. He has now sold to parents who came in as children themselves, and occasionally to grandchildren of his earliest customers. What he has watched across those three … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching which animals people choose, why they choose them, and what happens when the choice turns out to be right. In 2026, indoor birds are the third most popular pet in the UK, with around three … Read more