From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of UK summers with birds. The UK has now recorded temperatures of 35°C or above in May, June, and July 2026 — for the first time in the UK’s entire weather … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of thinking about what birds need to thrive, and watching what happens when some of those needs are met and others are not. The nightingale’s 2025 figures contain a lesson that is … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling birds and watching the UK’s relationship with its wild bird populations change across those decades. The RSPB’s 2024 Birdcrime report confirmed that between 2009 and 2023, at least 488 birds of prey were victims of … 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 watching the bird world from every angle. The RSPB published a new report on 27 May 2026 that every person who cares about birds in this country should … 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 watching UK pet welfare legislation evolve across Parliament and Whitehall developments that affect UK pet bird owners specifically. UK pet law changed substantially in April 2026 with multiple … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets — July 2026 Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching the welfare standards that govern the bird trade, in the UK and internationally, and understanding what gaps in those standards mean for the birds that end … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with cage and aviary birds through every kind of British summer. A peer-reviewed study published in March 2026 produced a number that stopped me when I read it. This … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling pet birds and watching, alongside that trade, what has been happening to wild birds in this country and around the world. The nightingale is one of Britain’s most celebrated birds. It has declined by 90 … 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 watching UK pet birds respond to specific environmental conditions across UK seasons, and observing what specific combinations of environmental factors produce what specific welfare outcomes for UK pet … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching how UK animal welfare law develops, what direction it moves in, and how those movements eventually reach the owners of every kept animal in the country. The Animal … Read more