My hat goes off to all you fosterers out there. You're doing a great job.
It's easy to get depressed about the rescue/unwanted dog situation in this country at the moment but sometimes we need to realise also just how far we've come. In my experience, many years ago the breeder would have had the puppy put down as a matter of course.
I'm sorry Henshallowboys didn't get the pup, but the right dog is waiting for them somewhere in the future.
I know this is totally different to deaf puppies, but our last 3 dogs went stone deaf in old age. It made no difference as we automatically started doing hand signals without being aware of it, and they automatically responded.