No resident but poop in house

[Jasminebc]

Hi,
I have had my hedgehog house out all summer and had put a bit of hay in there myself as I read it was ok to add some bedding. I also have a hedgehog feeding station outside of the house and hedgehogs come and go in my garden throughout the night and eat the food.

This morning, I noticed some of the hay had been moved from the main area to the tunnel area. I had a little peak inside and no hedgehogs were there, but… There was a lot of poop in there.

My question is, now some have started entering the house, should I quickly clean out the poop incase one decides to nest there over the winter?

[Roy Finch]

I clean all feeding stations daily but although there is a bit of leaves and short straw in the hibernacula and I have at least one “overnighter” generally leave them alone.
Earlier this year, the hog. that I think that i see most, pulled leaves inside a feeding station and made two appearances for a couple of weeks each. All I did each morning was to get the bum off the feeding bowl for the first few days of overnighting. Then, didn’t leave food in that station, same amount nightly across the other 2, until the hog. vacated.
Cleaned/cleared each time that the station was empty.
They often leave their deposits in the feeding stations, up the wall, in the dish, wherever!
Bear in mind that ‘cos of their fast metabolism they fill up and evacuate twice nightly.

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