I have eaten groundhog several times when I was a teenager. You can basically fix them using any recipe for deer. Most of the ones I ate were baked in the oven. A crock pot would be a good way to fix them. Groundhogs are vegetarians and they are actually pretty good. The only bad part is they stink while you are cleaning them. I have also eaten raccoon. They are greasy, but good. When I was a boy, my best friends mother used to fix them all the time. She also baked raccoon which is very greasy but good. She made a homemade sandwich spread that was absolutely great, and we would cut pieces off the raccoon and make sandwiches with it. They disappeared fast. I knew a guy that would kill ground hogs and grind them up, and the way he fixed the meat, you couldn't tell it from ham salad. He fed it to his family all the time, and they didn't have a clue what they were eating.
bake them, cut them up and fry them like a squirrel,