From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgerigars and cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with budgies of every age, background, and health status. Every summer he sees a pattern at the counter that concerns him. This is his honest account … 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 had some genuinely frightening phone calls from UK owners, and a budgie sneezing blood is one of the most worrying. This … 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 had countless urgent phone calls from UK owners noticing one wing hanging lower than the other on their budgie. This 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 of first-hand experience with these birds. In that time, he has had hundreds of worried owners walk in clutching a budgie whose cere had changed colour overnight, convinced something was terribly wrong. … 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
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 had more conversations about sudden budgie death than he can count. This article is everything those conversations have taught him — … 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 sat with more grieving owners than he can count. This article is the one he wishes every budgie owner would read … Read more