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 happens at the intersection of garden bird feeding and indoor pet bird keeping. Most people treat these as entirely separate activities. They are not, and this … 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 first-hand experience with budgerigars, cockatiels, canaries, finches, and dozens of other species. Over a million budgies are now kept in UK homes. In 35 years behind this counter, … 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 this species and close working relationships with the exotic vets who treat them. Certain illnesses come up again and again in budgies, far more often than owners 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 first-hand experience with budgerigars, cockatiels, canaries, finches, and dozens of other species. “Why does my budgie keep yawning?” is a question he hears regularly at the counter. This … 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. Sneezing with discharge is one of the signs that owners sometimes try to explain away — a bit of dust, the weather changing, the heating coming … 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. Curling feet in a budgie is one of those signs that can mean something very minor or something that needs urgent attention — and telling the … 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 wet or dirty vent is one of the signs that owners sometimes notice but do not always act on quickly enough. In most cases it … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has sold and kept budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with one of the UK’s most popular cage birds. A budgie with a bald or thinning head is one of the most common health concerns he sees owners bring 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. In that time, he has seen hundreds of worried owners walk into the shop carrying a bird that is sitting at the bottom of its cage. … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — nearly 40 years of first-hand experience with these birds. In that time, he has seen hundreds of owners walk through the door convinced their budgie is dying, when the real problem was something entirely fixable. … Read more