From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988. This article is about a specific, real situation that comes to him at the counter several times a year in various forms — an owner who loses a bird suddenly and cannot understand why. In almost … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies, cockatiels, and other pet birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988. The RSPB and British Trust for Ornithology published a major joint report this week on climate change and UK bird life. It is about wild birds — but thirty-five years at … 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. A budgie that has suddenly become aggressive is one of the most common and most distressing things a budgie owner brings to him. In almost every … 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. A budgie sleeping with one foot tucked up is one of the most common things new owners ask about. The answer almost always puts their mind … Read more
Updated 24 September 2026: Rebuilt the room-check plan; corrected light, humidity and urgent-care advice. When the heating comes on, check the room your budgie actually lives in: where its cage stands, what happens overnight, and what else shares its air. A warm thermostat reading elsewhere in the house does not answer those questions. This guide … 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 conversations with UK owners about every behaviour their bird shows them. This is his honest, practical guide on one of the most charming and surprising things budgies do — bringing their … 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 worried UK owners walk in with a budgie showing strange white spots, crusty patches, or honeycomb-like growths on the … 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. A budgie that chews everything it can reach is a budgie doing exactly what budgies are built to do. The question is not how to stop … Read more