When you’re feeling down and lost, there’s one thing that will always give you hope: an animal battling the odds and managing to eat a delicious snack.

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We’ve had pizza rat. Then we had a squirrel eating pizza.

Now, we have taco squirrel.

Taco squirrel is a squirrel who once sat in a tree and ate a taco.


We do not know this squirrel’s name. We do not know its story. We do not know what was inside the taco.

All we know is that this squirrel wanted a taco and refused to give up on that dream.

It snatched a taco. It did not back down when the taco was large and heavy. It did not retreat into a dark corner for ease of eating, or break the taco down into manageable bites.



This squirrel dragged its taco up to a comfy tree in New York, paused, and enjoyed a hard-earned meal.

Well done, taco squirrel. And thank you for inspiring us.

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