From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold guinea pigs at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching what happens in the first days after a guinea pig goes to a new home. The first week is the most critical period in the animal’s settling process — … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold hamsters at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with these animals. How a hamster sleeps is one of the most consistent indicators of how it is actually feeling. This is his guide to reading those signals accurately. … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has owned and run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling pets to families, individuals, and everyone in between. In that time he has turned away customers more than once. This is one of those stories — and why he thinks it is worth … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold both budgies and canaries at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of helping people make the right choice between two birds that look, from a distance, like they might be interchangeable. They are not. This is his honest account of … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling rabbits at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily first-hand experience with these animals and the people who keep them. Every summer, without exception, he sees rabbits brought in or hears from owners whose rabbits have died from … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily first-hand experience with these birds and the owners who keep them. A budgie sitting with its feathers fluffed up is one of the most commonly misread signs in the … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold rabbits and guinea pigs at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching UK summers become warmer and more unpredictable, and over 35 years of receiving distressed phone calls from owners who did not act early enough when the temperature … 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 cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with budgies, cockatiels, canaries, and aviary birds. In that time he has had thousands of conversations with new bird owners. The same five mistakes come up again and … 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