Observation

 So I've been seeing squirrels when I've been out and about on walks, and noticed when they sit, their tails wrap in on themselves like this:

The tail sort of sits flat against his back and curls over on itself, and I haven't really drawn the squirrels like that at all, instead I've had them sticking out like this:

I promptly headed to look at some other squirrels online to compare and a lot of the red squirrels I saw sit with their tails completely down like so:

I'm thinking that, because I'm using red squirrels, my little msitake will be ok? I believe they might have shorter tails than the grey squirrels I've been seeing everywhere which is why they don't always fold their tails like the grey one does, and that can excuse my poor tail-anatomy. Also, If their tails were super long and curled up I'd probably have found them a lot harder to animate, so perhaps it's just the bushiness of the tail that is represetnative of "squirrel" and not always the resting shape of it.