I'm wondering if it's just my memory, but I thought you couldn't get Bhakoru from zapping?

you can't zap one, but you can make a Nostalgic one and you can ask older users who were around eight years ago to make you one.

https://subeta.net/pets/Avernus - I got this late last night (my time) from the zapper.

(Sorry can't remember the coding to make it clickable)

I don't doubt you. Maybe this has been changed, because it's in the wikia on Fandom? But it's not in the FAQ about getting special pet species nor is it in the Zapper section, and I don't remember getting one the last time I did some serious zapping for the special minions you can get.

I zapped a Chibi Bhakoru while I was trying to unlock a battle challenger.

Congrats on that zap. I was wondering if my memory was wrong, they allowed it and I missed the announcement or if it was a side affect of the recent site work and resulting bugs/errors? There does still seem to be a lot of bugs and issues with stuff and no real sign of that ever changing and I'm wondering if there is a bug with the zapper?

I had bought some of the nostalgic instructions for when I settled on a colour I liked on my future Bhakoru.