Walked In or....dumped?

A week or so ago I had the back door open to the porch, I heard a noise and looked down. My goodness there was a cat. I thought where did he (she) come from? We don't know if someone dumped it or it wandered in. It looked to be in good health but when it meowed it was like the cat had laryngitis or something. It hung around the porch trying to meow. So my hubby finally took it out to the barn to see if we had any cat food left over from when we fed the coons last year, they were eating all the cubes we give to the cows and that was the only way to catch the coons. Anyway, there was some cat food left so he fed the cat and gave it some water and left it in the barn. The cat now resides in the barn, sleeping on top of the hay bales and meows to greet you when you walk in the barn, happy as can be.