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When I was a kid, I remember in the wintertime, early in the morning, when you opened the barn door, all the cats would be huddled together on the hay stack, they were quite warm staying together like that it seemed, even on the coldest of days. They were fed, but not too much, some would hunt others did not. It was always a nice scene on those days, the sun would shine into the barn, everything was all quiet, even the horses, and the cats would all be in the same spot looking at you, all squinty eyed just waking up. They were here before we were actually, came with the barns, and none of them were ever in the house as long as I can remember and back then we had some harsh winters. Nice to remember back to those days actually. I think one of the reasons it worked for them as there were always 4-5 around, made use of their body heat together + the hay is comfortable too. We have a few at our other place, had a sickly or malnurished scant few pass by that boarders have adopted, there is always dry food in a bowl on a shelf, mostly for the gray one that is a fantastic hunter and a real friendly one, he always brings you the days catch, they always seem to find a warm spot up there somewhere, usually on top of tractor that's just been run, but it does make you feel bad when it's 0 deg F outside, yet they're fine, just leave em some food before you lock up. Where you are, I don't think that the cat would be too uncomfortable, unless it's got no fur, but on the other hand, seems the boss has other plans regardless !
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