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 thrive and, more often than he would like, watching the early warning signs of illness get missed until they were harder to treat. A budgie losing weight is … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988. Over 35 years, he has seen open-mouth breathing in budgies mean nothing at all and he has seen it mean a bird in serious respiratory distress that needed a vet within hours. The difference between those … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily first-hand experience with these birds and the owners who keep them. In that time, he has sold budgies that went on to live fourteen years, and he has spoken … 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. If your budgie is on the cage floor right now and you are reading this, do not spend long on this introduction. Scroll to the assessment … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of keeping, breeding, and advising on budgies. A budgie drinking noticeably more water than usual is one of those symptoms that owners often dismiss — and occasionally should not. This is his honest guide on what it … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of keeping, breeding, and advising on budgies. A wheezing budgie is one of the most urgent concerns an owner can bring to the shop. This is his honest guide on what it means, what causes it, and … 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. Regurgitation is one of the most misunderstood budgie behaviours he is asked about. Most of the time it is completely normal. Sometimes it is not. Knowing … 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. Beak grinding is one of the questions he is asked about regularly, most often by new owners who have heard the sound for the first time … 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. In that time, he has been asked about budgie head bobbing more times than he can count — by new owners … 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. In that time, the science of how budgies actually see the world has changed significantly, and what we now know about … Read more