From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling budgerigars and taking the calls that come in during heatwaves from owners who do not realise what is happening until it is already serious. Amber heat alerts are active across all regions of England as … 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 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. Every January, hundreds of thousands of UK families take part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching how bird flu outbreaks develop, how the rules around them change, and how the information that matters most to pet bird owners tends to get lost between the headlines. The Avian Influenza Prevention Zone across … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cockatiels at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these birds specifically. Cockatiels have now firmly established themselves as the UK’s most popular small parrot after the budgie, and current industry rankings place them as the country’s … Read more
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 RSPB’s May 2026 guidance confirms what Neil has been saying at the counter for years: the UK’s warm months are now genuinely challenging for birds, … 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 watching new owners take a bird home for the first time and seeing exactly where, in the first week, things tend to go wrong. UK pet bird ownership has climbed to … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling budgies and advising on their housing. The question of cage size has been one of the most consistent conversations in those 35 years. This article is his honest view on what the RSPCA guidelines actually … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold pet birds and small animals at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching exotic pet ownership grow from a niche interest into a genuinely mainstream part of UK pet keeping. The UK now keeps around 3 million pet birds, … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching UK seasons, UK bird populations, and the slow change in what British bird keeping looks like from inside a shop that has been in the same place for all … Read more