Originally Posted by
the blur
What about rabies ? Would you eat a coon, or something that potentially has rabies?
Rabies has never been documented to be transferable through consuming meat of infected animals, lest said were contaminated by brain tissue, spinal tissue, or bone marrow.
Deer, squirrels, bunnies, and cattle can all be infected with rabies, just as likely as coyotes, wolves, or coons.
That's not to say I wouldn't avoid consuming any part of an animal I suspected of any form of commutable infection, but I wouldn't consider eating what appears to be a healthy predator or omnivore to be of any greater risk than eating any wild game.