30+ years ago we had rabbit for lunch for the first time. I ate it as my mum scared me and I wasn't brave enough to defy her.
She told us after dinner that it had belonged to the girl down the road but had died and she got it from the girl's father. This was my mother's idea of a joke - she thought it funny. I started crying.
I cringe at the thought of eating rabbit even to this day. I can't eat lamb either - but that is another story and another of my mother's sicko jokes.
My uncle ate my pet rabbits as a kid, he did kill them first.
I think on the basis that it might be diseased, that would be a no. On the grounds that rabbit is a nutritious and tasty meat, then yes.
Tough decision...but a pet how cruel.
if it had been a wild rabbit and been shot or netted, would that be o.k. to eat? once its dead, its dead. no different to eating any other meat or fish that once lived. all the people that slagged you of about this question probably had turkey for christmas, it may have been the farmers pet, called terrence or thelma, bet they never thought about that, they just ate it.