00:00 Animals have been elected to office around the world, sometimes to make a point or raise money, and there is a lengthy history of this tradition.

02:19 Animals have been elected to office in order to raise money for towns, such as a cat named Sweet Tart in Omena, Michigan and a dog named Lucy Liu in Rabbit Hash, Kentucky.

04:36 Lucy Liu, a dog who was previously the mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, retired and was succeeded by another dog named Bryneth Paltrow, who ran on a platform of restoring the general store and bringing peace and love to the town.

06:54 In an unincorporated town in Texas, a family of goats held the mayoral seat, with the first goat, Clay Henry, being fed beer and eventually killed by his successor, Clay Henry Jr., who was also a beer-drinking mayor, leading to the third goat, Clay the third, being castrated by a man upset about the goat mayor drinking on Sundays.

09:32 Animals have been elected to office as a way to shame politicians and show dissatisfaction with human candidates, such as a cat named Morris in Mexico and a rhinoceros called Cacareco in Brazil.

12:04 In 1968, the Yippies nominated a pig named Pegasus as a presidential candidate during the Democratic Convention in Chicago, but the pig was arrested by the police along with the protesters.

14:23 Caligula's appointment of his horse, Incitatus, as a consul to the Roman Senate may have been a smear campaign, but if it did happen, it was likely meant to humiliate the senators rather than due to madness or insanity.