@ai6yr Stop fighting it and accept that your veggie prison is simply a squirrel feeder with an entry puzzle.
Your hashtags said it:
Squirrel gumbo is a tasty spring treat.
soak your possum in lighter fluid for 30 minutes, ignite.
use it to cook something you can eat. ;)

Would this happen to be one of the squirrel obstacle courses Mark Rober built a couple of years ago?
It looks like that, but may be an inspired copy. The person posting did not credit Rober.
"Carling Black Label" used a challenging obstacle course in a commercial decades ago.
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/millions-of-views-for-nasa-engineers-obstacle-course-to-outwit-squirrels-2237337