From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these birds. In that time, he has watched countless UK owners walk into the shop convinced their budgie had injured itself or developed a strange illness because it … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these birds. In that time, he has watched countless UK owners walk in worried about their budgie’s obsessive relationship with its own reflection. This is his honest, practical … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching these birds in every kind of domestic environment, from the well-designed and enriching to the bare and inadequate. A budgie climbing its cage bars is something almost every owner sees, … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these birds. In that time, he has helped hundreds of UK owners through one of the most worrying things to witness — one budgie suddenly attacking another in … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these birds. One budgie picking on another is one of the most common multi-bird problems he sees — and one of the most consistently misread. Most owners either … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has sold and kept budgerigars at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with one of the UK’s most popular pet birds. Budgie stretching is one of those behaviours that owners notice and then wonder about — is it normal, is it excessive, … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these birds. Head bobbing is one of the most frequently misunderstood budgie behaviours he is asked about. Most of the time it is a compliment. Occasionally it means … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching these birds every single day. A fluffed-up budgie that is still eating is one of the most common concerns he hears from owners. This is the exact sequence he works … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has sold and kept budgerigars at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with one of the UK’s most popular pet birds. A budgie that has stopped talking is one of the questions he gets asked regularly — sometimes casually, sometimes with real … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these birds. In that time, he has taken hundreds of frightened phone calls that all start the same way: “Neil, my budgie has gone silent overnight.” This is … Read more