No, I have never eaten one. I tried it and it is good but I can not get my mind to wrap itself around it being food.
No, I do not think it would be good to eat a rabbit after being killed by a rattlesnake.
The crockpot did not work because all of the meat fell off of the bone and there are a lot of bones in a snake. He ate the meat, it was just a big mess of bones in the pot.