TheHolyLancer
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Can gopher be cooked into something or else is it coyote food?
Can gopher be cooked into something or else is it coyote food?
Unless it's a survival situation, I wouldn't eat it. It's rat. But if you had to, fry the crap out of it.
The other thing with gophers is that they are cannibalistic and therefore prone to all the nastiness that comes with eating your own species.
Gophers are only canibals for self-protection. If you kill a Gopher and leave it there, the members of the colony will drag it down and eat it so that won't stink up the neibourhood and bring in more creatures to eat them!
Scott
Interesting point that bearhunter brought up, along those same lines, during the Depression years on the prairies, farm families were forced to consider eating them and some did to keep above ground.
Look at our American friends especially in the south eastern states regularily hunt and eat squirrel, which is a close relative to our ground squirrel. So...
We live in such a naturally rich North American continent, it is not often we have to eat critters of second or third or last choice.
We are very lucky to be here.