Hi Phileuas
It depends where you are in relation to where the hog is currently using as a day nest. The hog may take a circuitous route and return to it’s current nest site in a night. Male hogs, in particular, can change nests fairly often so may decide to nest elsewhere. It sounds as if you are on a current route for the hedgehog and it’s just making use of your hog house if it finds itself there when it’s near sleep time.
What we feed should be supplementary to what the hog can find in the wild. So ideally all hog lovers would try to make their gardens as hog friendly as possible so that the hogs can find some natural food there. You are likely on some sort of circuit, but if the hog didn’t find food there, it would likely move on but come back another time/day to check whether some had appeared.
