Are painted pets way easier to happen upon in the pound than the olden days, or did I just get extremely lucky?

I used to be an avid Neopets player back in 2005-2008ish. I was a kid at the time and didn’t understand any of the ways to quickly accumulate points, so having a painted pet was nothing more than a wild dream for me. If I did see one in the pound, they’d be snapped up before I could adopt.

I just was struck with a wave of nostalgia and decided to create a new account. I immediately hit the pound and within an hour had adopted:

Spotted Kougra

Island Atara

Glowing Hissi

8bit Grundo

Purple Zafara

and there were a couple others that I passed up on as well.

Are painted pets just less rare these days?