Recently, I have noticed that my pets have been resetting their energy  timers every time I take an action.

For example (this is hypothetical):

Pet A has 3 energy at 04:40 game time.  The countdown timer say +1 energy at 05:15. I go manually battle in the arena for a few minutes (say it takes me 5 minutes to win or lose 3 times), so game time is now 04:45.  I go back to my pet's profile, and it has 0 energy, which is correct, but the countdown now says +1 energy at 05:45.

I haven't noticed this before.  Is it normal and I just haven't noticed or is it a bug?  All my pets appear to be affected, and it appears to be any action that consumes energy.

Thanks for the help!

This is how it is intended to work. I've found a response from Angel on this topic, and pasted it here. The original thread is here.

It works like this with any pet activity and was coded this way with purpose. A pet should have a full hour of rest to regain energy. If we wake up a man at 3AM, force him to run 3 miles and let him sleep further, he won't wake up rested at the morning (and we will hear everything that he thinks about us). The same thing happens with pets.