Certainly.
And my Mom was a great Dog lover.
Afterwards she held the doggy in her arms, sweetly telling him "it´s not your fault ... it´s not your fault" 😉
Yes, but a flat box just long enough to fit them would have been better. The box it came in was probably 10"x10" and double the length of the tube.
It's cheaper to just stock a few sizes of boxes, and their shipping cost is by weight so they don't care.
If they run out of one size of box they use the next size up - rather than make you wait. Weight is the major component of shipping costs, cardboard isn't so much. I once had two TQFP32 package microcontrollers arrive in a large box (big enough for a pair of boots!). They happened to be in a pair of waffle trays https://www.antistat.co.uk/jedec-waffle-trays/ (presumably they had some spare and had run out of other anti-static bags/boxes), hence a larger box was chosen.
I buy enough parts to notice that the packaging at Mouser is really dependant in the person doing the picking. They decide themselves, I am sure with some guidelines what extra packaging to use. It can get excessive but on the flip side they provide most of the packaging materials I need to use for my shipments