I'd be really really upset, especially if I was given a pet as a gift and it looked like it had been mistreated before. Almost every single one of my pets has been a rescue from a shelter or directly from an abusive situation. My poor girl Spook and my little man Onyx were found wandering the streets...Remus was found in a box on the side of a busy road. My roomates rat was given up to a pet store because he was "too big"

Grrr...it makes my blood boil to think that there are many homeless pets out there and yet someone has to go and potentially make even MORE pets homeless by being thoughtless and giving a pet as a gift.