Dog Names Meaning Splendid

Beau joined the Stewart household and usually slept in the corner of the room.  Jimmy told Psychology Today that he can't sleep without a dog in the bedroom and his Golden, Beau, was there in the corner every night.  Stewart reported that there were some nights that Beau would sneak into the bed, positioning himself between Jimmy and Gloria, and nudge Jimmy.  Responding to the touch of the dog, Jimmy said he would reach over and stroke the hair on the dog's head.  Though he acknowledged that he should have pushed the dog out of bed, he instinctively knew that the dog just wanted Jimmy's touch on the hair on his head to make him happier.  And, that ritual resulted in a benefit for Jimmy, too.  Jimmy said he slept better with Beau beside him in bed.  

As happens in this old life, people and things pass on, and Beau passed away.  Jimmy was on location shooting a movie in Arizona when he received a call from Gloria, asking his permission to euthanize Beau, who was terminally ill.  He denied the request from his wife and asked the vet to "keep him alive until I get there."  Stewart requested and received several days off from the filming project to spend some time with Beau before he permitted the euthanization of the sick canine.  Jimmy said that when he returned to his car, he sat quietly alone for about 10 minutes while he cried and cleared the tears from his eyes.  Jimmy shared that there were many nights after Beau's death, that Stewart had the feeling that Beau got into bed beside him as his precious pooch always had in life, but when reaching over to stroke his hair, Beau wasn't there.  The grief he felt he shared in a poem which he wrote and would eventually read on the Johnny Carson show, an event which brought tears to Carson's eyes as well.