AIBU to feed our local hedgehog visitor?

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We have a little hedgehog come into our front garden every night, I leave a saucer of water out for him (we've named him Paulo) and after reading it on our local wildlife hospitals Facebook page I also left out some chopped up hard boiled eggs.

The kids are loving waiting quietly to see if he comes every evening especially as 2 little kittens come and out and hang around him, today we went and got some hedgehog food from the garden centre.

We have put out some more water and some of the food and my neighbour was out in her garden.
She got all cats bum mouth about it and said I was encouraging local cats to run away from their homes and encouraging a pest problem with the 'disease ridden' hedgehogs.

So AIBU to feed the local wildlife?

I'v never noticed wild hedgies smelling.
You can buy dried mealworms at petshops or garden centers and they love those.
When
The hedgie isn't scared/pissed off it will put its quills down.
Don't worry about fleas, they can catch fleas from other animals but can't trsnsmit their fleas to your animals.
If you love them so much have you ever thought about a pet hedgie?
I have heard that about fish based food however our vet didnt sAy anything about it and our pet one has never been ill.
Really good quality catfood is james wellbeloved and the kitten one, full of nutrients and full of calories.

I know this is an old thread but please never feed hedgehogs peanuts or mealworms, they give them metabolic bone disease, a terrible, painful disease that kills them.

Cat food, ideally kitten biscuits with a high meat content such as those sold by Tesco’s and Sainsbury’s are ideal supplemental feeding.

Also hedgehogs only eat slugs in extremis as they can give them lungworm - they prefer caterpillars and beetles.

Riverside hedgehog houses are the best quality; please avoid many of the plastic ones sold by supermarkets which are poorly insulated and ventilated.

Even during the winter months they wake to eat and drink occasionally so please keep up with the feeding.

Really worth following @hedgehogcabin on Twitter, she also has an excellent website. She runs a hedgehog hospital and is a fund of useful info.
Please avoid self-styled hedgehog experts such as ‘hedgehog Hugh’ whose knowledge is very limited.
Always listen to bonafide rescues.