What a horrible "joke". I'm sure they got the pets from some place that didn't even care about the animals' placement. At my local humane society we don't allow pets to go out as presents even to somebody in the same household (a parent can't buy their child a birthday pet unless the child is present). Its not a good idea because you never know if the reciever can commit to taking charge of this animal for the rest of its life. Even if you know that they want new pet its best to let them pick it out because somebody might not want the dog that looks just like their recently deceased pet, ext. If somebdy really wants to get somebody a pet they should talk to the person and maybe offer to pay for the pet of choice, or buy the supplies and let the person pick their pet. The only pet I've given is goldfish to my mother because she told me she wanted to get one or two more for her pond.