My Brother needs some help with his dog, Jypsy.

[Karen]

Definitely sounds like separation anxiety - there are a lot of threads about that here, and many ways to help train her away from it. Keeping her crated during the day may be the best short-term solution, and maybe even long-term, it would give her a "safe haven" during her "alone" time.

[Seravieve]

We went through this with Bunny... She destroyed EVERYTHING she could get her mouth on while J was at work. We began crating her and waalaa! Nothing else was destroyed. Zeke, Bunny and Eli were all crate trained, and never had a problem with being in there all day while we were at work. Eventually they'll grow out of the need for the crate, I believe. We began leaving them out during the day and nothing has happened really. Just have to keep the trash empty. We tried to crate train Treo, but that was a disaster. So hopefully your brother will have better luck with Jyspy than we did with Treo. (She ate her way out of a METAL crate and folded one side in on herself and escaped.)