FWIW-out here in oregon they warn that raccoons are known carriers of rabies,along with skunks.Possums on the other hand are not immune to any disease according to some veterinarian that I talked with and if they get a disease it usually kills them quickly.Meaning that they are
most likely safe to eat.Personally I have never been hungry enough to eat any of them except for a"tree rat "when I was younger just for curiosity sake.I have also tried musk rat,rock chuck,porcupine and when I was stationed in GTMO a critter called a "banana rat"which is like a ground hog or a beaver with a prehensile tail that lives in a tree.Still no "coons"!

Would not eat skunk,possum, snake , and a variety of birds ,unless I was in really bad shape and dire need!!!!!

Just look at my photo. I sure don't look hungry enough to eat most of those critters. I make enough income to eat a little higher on the hog. But, hey,.........if I was starving..............!

As far as rabies, just don't eat the ones with white foam on their little black lips!

Cary

No one stays on this earth for ever, but looking at pictures and converstaion here I do believe we are survivors!!!!!! You know the liberals think milk comes from the grocery store!!!

I've eaten snake - its pretty good, tree rats - you gotta have a lot, birds from pidgeons and doves to turkeys and most every one in between, dog, fish - of all kinds, grass hoppers, ants, grubs and worms. You have to want to eat something real bad to eat the last four.

I cooked a coyote once, to feed my coon hounds. It smelled just like beef. Nope....I didn't try it.

Cary

Hummm. Coulda tasted just like dog...

I have eaten turtle and liked it. There is a lot of things that we can eat that just have no appeal at all!!!

I had octopus soup ONCE. I was drunker then two skunks and still didn't like it...Left it on the bus an the way to Pearl Harbor Naval Base...

I liked the broth from menudo, but still cannot eat tripe!!

I used to eat a dish they called "marascada" when I was in Puerto Rico all the time. It was chunks of red snapper, shrimp, conch, octopus, lobster, maybe scallops, onions and peppers, all cooked in either a butter and garlic sauce or a tomato based sauce. All I can tell you is that I'd go back to PR just to have some more.

Don't sound bad, but don't know about the octopus!

Something like chewin' on a tender inner tube...

I understand why you left it on the bus!!!!!!!

wild pork chops went on the BBQ last night. the dogs complained cause when we had finished with them the bones were clean az. roast going in the camp oven today maybe pumpkin spuds and peas on the side of course we cant forget the apple sauce... as for flood tornado hurricanes I seem to recall singing a song at school bible class that went something about a foolish man builds his house apon the sand.... and the rain comes tumbling down.....funny the things that stick in your mind. :-}