No, not a bad surprise. I just would have preferred a good... I don't know, month to prepare?
...Probably. I got toys, multiple food and water bowls so I can keep them well sanitized, a crate that I won't insist on but was assured will be her 'safe space'.
I'm fucking 40 years old and I've never had a pet. I won a goldfish at a fair when I was a kid and my mother insisted that fishbowls were cesspools of disease and wouldn't let me have it. Admittedly that was good for the fish, I know now that they shouldn't be kept in bowls.