If you've never dressed tree rats, I recommend watching a youtube video on how to dress and prepare them. They may seem a little gamey cooked in rice or dumplings if you've never eaten them. In gumbo or fried, not so bad. I still like fried squirrel, quail, venison, rabbit. I used to duck hunt a lot and they're best in gumbo or cornbread dressing. My wife misses them and will gladly pay $20 for a duck to go in her homemade dressing - which is some kind of good. Wild turkey is unbelievably good and puts store bought turkey to shame.
No doubt most city slickers will turn their collective noses up to eating tree rats, but I grew up eating them, and think nothing of it. Another thing, and most people who've fasted for any length of time (5+ days) know what I'm talking about, there is a point when hunger will make any food savory to the point you will literally have the desire to lick the plate.
In my grad school immunology class, we used lab rabbits to generate antiserum for a variety of antigens. If it wasn't a human pathogen, the rabbit was permitted for food after the final exsanguination. At that point in time, my skill at doing cardiac punctures to draw blood was pretty good. I never lost a bunny. One of my fellow students made a pin cushion of a bunny. It screamed, peed on the table and died. What antigen? Beef heart extract. Dinner! Grain fed lab rabbit is excellent.
I haven't gone turkey hunting, but we have LOTS of wild turkeys around Pocatello (surrounding mountains). I'll have to avail myself of a wild bird soon.