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. In that time he has watched thousands of birds live shorter lives than they should have. This is his honest account … 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. In that time, some of the most persistent and puzzling behaviour problems he has been asked about have had their root … 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. In that time, the thing that has impressed him most about these animals is not how much they can learn. It … 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 products help birds and what products harm them. The pet shop market for bird products is large, poorly regulated in some areas, and contains a number … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgerigars at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these birds. A budgie that was once tame and has become less so is one of the situations owners find most confusing — and most disheartening. The tameness … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgerigars at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these birds. A budgie that taps its food before eating is one of the behaviours that owners notice but rarely ask about — assuming it is either normal … 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. In that time he has had thousands of conversations with new bird owners. The same five mistakes come up again and … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years watching how gardens and the birds that use them change across the seasons. The weeks immediately before nesting season are, in his view, the most important and the most consistently overlooked window … 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 immersed in the world of birds. The wren is one he returns to often in conversation, because it is one of the most instructive examples of a bird that … 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 how people’s relationships with birds change across time. The shift toward garden bird feeding that began during the pandemic has not reversed. If anything, it has deepened. This … Read more