--- title: Yearbook Photo of Student and Principal With Cat and Chihuahua description: Student and cat pose with principal and chihuahua in epic yearbook photo canonical: https://time.com/3449584/cat-yearbook-photo-with-principal-and-chihuahua/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-30T15:59:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:24.405Z og:title: Student Poses with Cat in Yearbook Alongside Principal and Her Chihuahua og:description: Student and cat pose with principal and chihuahua in epic yearbook photo og:url: https://time.com/3449584/cat-yearbook-photo-with-principal-and-chihuahua/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Student Poses with Cat in Yearbook Alongside Principal and Her Chihuahua twitter:description: Student and cat pose with principal and chihuahua in epic yearbook photo twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Student's Dream of Epic Yearbook Cat Photo Comes True  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 30, 2014 3:59 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 30, 2014 3:59 PM UTC Earlier this month, [NewsFeed reported](http://time.com/3327621/cat-schenectady-high-school-yearbook/) that Draven Rodriguez, a student at Schenectady High School in upstate New York, was asking the school’s administration to let him pose with his cat, Mr. Bigglesworth, in his senior portrait. [An online petition](http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/get-my-photo-into-the-yearbook) with the photo below only needed 500 signatures to “pass,” but ended up going viral and racking up more than 7,400 signatures.  Vincent Giordano / Trinacria Photography Now [CBS6 reports](http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/features/top-story/stories/student-principal-take-photo-pets-19609.shtml) that the petition worked! Well, sort of! The bad news is the photo still can’t be his senior portrait, but the good news is the school principal Diane Wilkinson posed for a new epic photo with Rodriguez and her pet chihuahua Vivienne that will go on her yearbook page to encourage animal rescue and adoption. Behold:  Vincent Giordano/Trinacria Photography ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3449584/cat-yearbook-photo-with-principal-and-chihuahua/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3449584/cat-yearbook-photo-with-principal-and-chihuahua/"},"headline":"Student's Dream of Epic Yearbook Cat Photo Comes True","datePublished":"2014-09-30T15:59:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:24.405Z","description":"His wish was granted after an online petition went viral","url":"https://time.com/3449584/cat-yearbook-photo-with-principal-and-chihuahua/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3449584/cat-yearbook-photo-with-principal-and-chihuahua/","name":"Student's Dream of Epic Yearbook Cat Photo Comes True"}}]}] ```