I heard they are eaten by some folks and looked into recipes out of curiosity. Personally I don't think I will be trying it in the near future, but the people I watched on youtube made it look pretty good.
We hit 40f yesterday afternoon which may have brought it out at dusk. Our snow has yielded to some patches of bare ground showing in places.
After eating in our compost pile of kitchen scraps, he/she climbed the fence and went under our deck.
I read that they can get into tomatoes and do a lot of damage, so on that basis alone, plus the fact that it might be sick, and I don't want a litter of 6-10 setting up shop in the immediate neighborhood, I am leaning heavily toward extermination with .22 and/or live trap.
