Ideally, all cats should live outdoors and have access to the indoors. When I was growing up, that's the only way my parents would allow me to have a cat and even as a young adult, I kept my cats outdoors but they came in to eat and sleep, etc. Nowadays, though, it's scary to do that because it's a different world but to be a barn cat is, in my opinion, an ideal life for a cat. I think you did a wonderful job and saved Hunter from a horrible ending. Good job!