Pet of the day: Meet Bubba, the school cat with his own ID card

Kunal Majumder | Updated on: 14 February 2017, 6:49 IST

TWEET THIS

This cat in California is more popular in its school than you will ever be

Students at a school in San Jose love their cat so much they got him an ID card and also wanted his statue

Bubba the cat has been attending the Leland High School in San Jose, California, since 2009. The students love the cat so much that they got him his own ID card.

Bubba's owners live behind two school buildings. Ever since 2009, the campuses have been Bubba's favourite hangout spot.

Bubba has his own Facebook page and is also a frequent visitor at the school adjoining Leland. The students had once even petitioned to erect his statue on campus.

My two cents

I wish I'd been half as popular in my school. But on the brighter side, animals have really started taking their education seriously these days. Remember that cow in Jammu and Kashmir who was erroneously issued an admit card for a professional entrance exam?

First published: 14 February 2017, 6:49 IST

Kunal Majumder @kunalmajumder

Editor for Speed News aka Catch Live and Operations at Catch, Kunal enjoys measuring his life in numbers. Of his 30 years of life, 12 have been spent working, 9 of them in journalism. The remaining 3 were spent in 2 call centres, talking to British and Australians about insurance and cellphones. In his journalistic capacity, Kunal has worked at 3 publications and headed 2 online teams. The '3' includes Images Multimedia, Tehelka and DNA. The '2' includes Tehelka and DNA. Catch is Kunal's 6th workplace, where he will head his 3rd team as speed news editor. As a reporter, he won 2 awards - Statesman Award for Rural Reporting and UNFPA-Laadli Award for Gender Sensitivity. That's his story in Prime Numbers (a section on this site from which he's taken inspiration).