I haven’t had rabbit or squirrel since I was a kid. Squirrels abound in our neighborhood, because we have lots of hickory nuts (hubby says they are not the edible type).
I think that if push came to shove we could probably raise some rabbits to eat with out violating any of our sub-division restrictions.
Easy to keep in a garage, if necessary; and can’t beat the manure for the garden: even fresh doesn’t ‘burn’.
The squirrels or the nuts? As far s I'm concerned, no squirrel is edible! When I was pregnant with my first child, my father-in-law used to cook squirrels with my late mother-in-law's lemon chicken (Sicilian) sauce. One taste of it would cause me to lose my supper. It was pregnancy related morning sickness, but I can't bear to smell it, or look at it, to this day! That daughter is now 50+ years old. And eating around all those little pellets left from shooting the squirrel -- no thanks. Ugh!