My grey is in her outside enclosure until at least june 30th. With her diet being more healthy than wild, the grapes,apples, and other sugary foods have attracted sugar ants.
I need to find some options to limit them from getting to her food so i can keep cage trips to a minimum.

Cage bowls are the bowl that twists into a base pedestal, and the base secures through wood/cage with a clamshell.. (got them at tractor supply, same types as most kennel feeders).

The posion that is used for the ants is borax based.. so i dont want to introduce that anywhere near the cage because i have no clue how the squirrel will react to it.

The only thing i can come up with, is to use some Vaseline around the point where the pedestal mounts to the wood, as thats the only way the ants can get to the bowl.... the squirrel has her ledge/perch that doesnt provide easy/direct access to the pedestal.

Will Vaseline be something harmful if the squirrel finds it and decides to moosh it all over herself?