Usually not, and it can make things worse. A crate confines a dog that is trying to escape, and escape attempts are where the injuries come from — damaged feet and toenails, and obsessive attempts to get out of a crate or room.
Dogs attempting to escape damage their feet and toenails; destruction of flooring, walls and furniture sits on the same list as obsessive attempts to get out of a crate or room. A crate does not remove the panic. It removes the exit.
Some dogs are genuinely calmer in a crate they were happily conditioned to long before any separation problem existed. That is a different dog from one being crated because of the problem, and the footage will tell you which one you have inside a session or two.
The measure is not whether the room survives. It is whether the dog stays under threshold. Any arrangement that keeps the dog calm is a good arrangement; any arrangement that produces panic is an over-threshold exposure being repeated daily, and repetition is how a fear gets stronger.
Why Your Dog Panics When You Leave is a 53-page guide in nine lessons, with every claim sourced in the margin of the page it sits on: finding your dog's threshold and protecting it, the training absence from one second upward, what crates and second dogs and bark collars actually do, and where medication fits. It comes with the Absence Ladder spreadsheet you log each departure in, and the owners' community.
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