Wow, I think you should really step back and realize that this is not your dog.
I don't mean to be rude, but perhaps you don't have all the information and it would be a horrible thing to make these people sound so terrible if it is not warranted. You offered to dog sit. So do a good job of it. All dogs are different. My last Yorkie was a product of horrible breeding and he died at 7 yrs old. His bottom teeth stuck straight out causing all sorts of eating problems and pain for him. He had a congenital kidney problem and eventually died of kidney failure at 7. He never ran and played like a "normal" dog. I now know that his teeth caused him a lot of pain even though the vet sedated him to clean them often. I think that if you had dog sat my Gizmo, you may have had a list for me too. Gizmo was in so uncomfortable in his last year, we just held him mostly and tried not to cause him any more pain. We loved him very much.
Now, I have a healthy yorkie girl, one of Jill Brook's, and she is beautiful, playful, etc., nothing like Gizmo. Every dog is different.
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