From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold pet birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of welcoming UK new bird owners through the shop door for the first time, and watching what happens in the crucial first week of their pet bird ownership. UK pet bird … 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 watching these birds in homes across Swindon and beyond, and gradually understanding that the most important thing he could teach any budgie owner was not how to feed or tame the … 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 summer, without fail, birds die in UK homes from heat that their owners did not … 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. The APHA’s bird flu prevention guidance was restructured and reissued in June 2026 following the lifting of the Avian Influenza Prevention … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching the intersection between garden bird welfare and cage bird health more closely than most. The RSPB’s April 2026 guidance — built around the phrase “just one … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold guinea pigs and rabbits at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of helping UK families make one of the most common pet decisions British households face when choosing a first small animal pet for children or family life. The guinea … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling cage birds and small animals at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching UK pet ownership trends change, accelerate, and occasionally go badly wrong. Exotic pet ownership in the UK has grown roughly 60 percent since 2000, a … 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 watching UK households develop genuine relationships with the bird species that has remained Britain’s most popular pet bird for decade after decade. The UK Pet Food Association (PFMA) confirms that over … 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. One of the questions he gets asked most often is how much a budgie actually costs … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling cockatiels at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily first-hand experience with these birds and the owners who keep them. Cockatiel diet is one of the topics where the gap between what most UK owners actually feed and … Read more