A high school student loved his cat so much that he wanted his pet included in his yearbook photo. Draven Rodriguez, a Schenectady High School senior in Upstate New York, said that he wanted people to look at it and immediately know that it was him, according to The Post-Standard.

Rodriguez wanted his classmates to remember him as someone who loved lasers and cats.

He had been planning to take a photo with Mr. Bigglesworth, his cat, since he was in junior high. Aside from wanting people to remember him and having something that was different from other high school portraits, he also wanted people to laugh due to the ridiculous and outlandish nature of the photograph.

He was expecting that there would be some resistance from school officials and therefore he started an online petition just to make sure that his photograph with his cat would be included in the yearbook. He said in his petition that his school had not yet rejected his photograph. He was just preempting a rejection by collecting enough signatures to support his petition. He was only targeting about 500 signatures, but he has already gathered over 650.

His photograph, which shows him in a suit while holding his beloved feline pet, had blue and pink lasers in the background. It was taken by Trinacria Photography's Vincent Giordano. It was superimposed on a larger shot of the cat shown in the right upper hand corner of the photo.

The school had never told him that the photograph could not be used. In fact, Karen Corona, the spokeswoman for the Schenectady school district, said that although Rodriguez's photo would not be in the portraits section, there are other places within the yearbook where the photo could be placed. Rodriguez is happy with the compromise, Huffington Post reports.