Where I live we have a substantial population of Fox and Marmot. Has anyone eaten or heard of a preparation technique for them? Our Squirrel, Rabbit, Raccoon, Grouse population is fairly thin so they require a bit of work to get and are quite common as eating fare so I don't think prep/recipes should be a problem.

Ron hood from hoods woods wife has alot of recipes for mormot goto survival.com her videos are called cave cooking. His videos survival basics and all the rest that i have seen are the best survival how to videos I have seen and I highly recomend them.

Foxes are carnivors I can't speak for others but personally I don't care for the taste of carnivor. Of course if it were a choice of eat itor starve I'd eat it..........but I still wouldn't like it.

foxes have very little meat on them. instead, look for coyotes and fix them as you would dog.

The ONLY animal I have ever seen with rabies was a fox and I've seen several that were rabid. I don't think I would take the chance. HOwever, Mamet would be ok. Around here, coyote are prevalent as are bear.

correct my if i'm wrong but can't you eat something with rabies as long as you don't eat the brain or spinal cord?

bbekalb don't forget the salivary glands and probably the lymphatic system but I'm not certain about that.

Christian for Israel wrote:foxes have very little meat on them. instead, look for coyotes and fix them as you would dog.

Have you ever skinned a coyote? They are naaaasty!
I would have to be starving to make a go of that lunch.

I can be the voice of experience for marmot.

Also called "woodchuck" or "groundhog".

Around here we grow a lot of soybeans. The groundhogs like to dig their holes near the edges of the fields. When the beans first come up, their cotyledons are exposed and plump. The dirtpigs (my pet name for them) just love to start near their hole and snip them off, eating them in a half moon shape. Sometimes they clear off as much as 2 or more acres. Once they do that, the bean plant will grow normally to full sized but it will never produce a single bean.

So, it was my job (or my pleasure) to dispatch the little bean eatin' bastards on our 200 acres and the few hundred acres of some neighbors. (They paid me $2 a tail...). Ones that were younger than 2 years old, I would skin. If they were younger than a year, we'd fry them up like squirrel or rabbit. Older than a year old, mom would cook them in gravy. They are pretty meaty. People think they're gross but they're not. They're a clean animal just like a rabbit or a squirrel. They are vegetarians and they are tasty.

They are, however, fairly difficult to skin.

You might ask how many I've eaten. Though I don't have an exact count, I do know I've killed over 800 over ten years. (238 was my one year record.) Probably ate less than half of them. Lets say 300 eaten. The really old ones are almost impossible to skin. Once I got skilled at hunting them, I "graduated" to using a 22 pistol. I've killed at least a dozen with a Cresent Adjustable Wrench. 12in ones work best. 10in is to small and the 15inchers are too big to get a good spin on. A ball peen hammer works good too. I'd catch them out in the fields away from their holes and whack them with a hammer or even the heal of my boot. I stomped one this one time and took it back home and put it on the postal scales we had. It was an old one. He weighed 18 lbs. Biggest one I ever bagged.

I plan on using these, if SHTF because few people know about them and they tend to be very stealthy. Also, most people think their gross and ugly. But, then again, most people haven't got a clue whats on the way.

I'd do it as far 'yotes, but I'd have to be awfully hungry. Same as Fox. Groundhogs, I might try em. Hell, if I'm hungry enough, I'll eat near anything! So will most of you LOL.