I'm so sorry Jessica, I completely missed this post.
It's very sad that you had to lose Buddy, but at least your two will be safe now. Is the disease treatable? If the shelter can bring him back to full health and then give him to a nice new home then it'll be a happy ending, I think. It doesn't even bear thinking about the consequences if you'd chanced keeping him and your Jewels and Jordan got sick with it...after all, Jordan's getting on a bit in years, and probably isn't as robust as a little puppy.
For what it's worth I think your family made the right decision.
Love the pics too, BTW, Buddy is a real sweetie. When I was reading the first two pages of this I was getting really excited thinking how we'd get to watching him grow up through pictures :(
