but he often begged for more when she got home from school. "No, Beau, you can't eat now," she told the cat soothingly. Beau responded by heading straight to the door for a howl session. These invariably ended with one of us putting Beau outside. Later we learned that one of our neighbors had fed Beau when he was a stray. She didn't know that we had adopted Beau, so she continued to feed him whenever he came by.