Someone just pointed out to us that with the September 2008 / special release gift boxes for Tess' and Lexi's birthday pets, the group view shows the full-grown rarity tag (as it has before), but the profile view of the pet will display the unknown, still growing tag.
I don't know if this is the case for all of the outcomes, but it does affect the pink cake dog, as that's the pet we got as an example^^
I know the group display has always displayed the VR tag on the gift box stage already, but the mismatch between profile and group tags is probably fix-worthy^^