The latest mock candidate for mayor of Toronto has some nutty ideas about running the city.

The website "Squirrel for Mayor: Toronto needs a nuttier mayor" was launched earlier this month. In a blog post dated July 11, the unnamed critter explains why it’s qualified to run Canada's largest city.

"Squirrels have to budget all the time. We need to figure out how many nuts we need to make it through the winter, and bury them for future use. So I know budgets," the squirrel explains.

The bushy tailed creature even has its own Twitter account, where it has taken shots at incumbent Ford and even challenged mayoral hopefuls Olivia Chow and David Soknacki to a nut-eating competition.

The ambitious squirrel has caught attention of real Toronto mayoral candidate Richard Underhill, as well as the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association.

If the squirrel did run, it would join an already crowded race of more than 50 candidates, including frontrunners Ford, Chow, John Tory, Soknacki and Karen Stintz.

Animals have run for the position of mayor in other cities and town in the past. A cat named Tuxedo Stan, a then-three-year-old cat born to a feral mother, was a candidate in Halifax's mayoral race in 2012. The black-and-white cat was even endorsed by CNN's Anderson Cooper.