My grandma would take a cleaned coon and rub it down with salt, paint it yellow with mustard(literally), place it in a cast iron dutch oven, cover it with sliced onion, crush up several dried cayenne peppers on it, place several sweet potatoes around it, and slow bake it for hours in the oven of a wood stove while occasionally basting it with a homemade vinegar sauce till it was falling off the bone.
Did the same with possums.
Yeah, I've ate possums too, and fox.. and bobcat... and snapping turtle... bullfrogs... gar fish... eels.... alligator, armadillo, crow and most everything else that walks, crawls, flys, or swims that looks like it might be good fried, stewed or barbecued.....