re: My brother asked for advice advice and I have no idea what to tell him... need help

It's not about the dog. No kids together? Dude should run

He won't like this one bit but the dogs behavior is a reflection of the current owner. That is backed up by her moving out and not being committed to a real marriage.

Tell her that if she comes back the dog is her responsibility, note that the yard is small and that the dog will require an outlet in order to get his energy out.

I bet you any amount of money, she will continue to be who she is and your buddy will have to step in and manage the dog if he doesn't want a hyper little shite running through his house.

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His wife moved out few months ago.

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They never divorced,

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Well during this separation she goes and adopts this dog.

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They have 3 kids total between them (none together)

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He doesn't even have kids with this woman. Be done with it and file for divorce.

Roux22 beat me too it.
The dog can be trained, she can't.

Fence in the yard and train the dog.

Finish divorcing the wife. If you don't have kids with her then there is no reason to take her shite.

We did some match making several decades ago. After their third date, she decided he was, in fact, the one. She got rid of her nippy, yippy dog that liked to bite men.
She knew what was important,
They were married twenty some years before her fatal heart attack recently.

The marriage should be more important than a dog. Her children should be more important than a dog. Hours spent with the dog are hours she's not spending being a Mother.

The dog seems like a secondary issue. He could always have the dog over for initially-short, progressively-longer visits while they try to work it out, and see how slowly incorporating the dog into the household works (or doesn't). He could also make it very clear, and get her explicit agreement, that this is her dog, and she needs to train it, discipline it, walk it, pick up its crap, etc.

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His wife moved out few months ago. They never divorced, apparently have been working things out.... Now she wants to come back and he wants her to as well. They have 3 kids total between them (none together) ....

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IMO your kids need to come first. When you have kids together, you really need to try very hard to make it work. But that isn't the case here. When she moved out, did she take her kid(s) with her?! What do his kid(s) think of / feel about the situation, and how has it affected them? Where are his kid(s) mom(s)? Where are her kid(s) dad(s)? To me, the whole minefield of the kids' other parents is a huge reason why 'blending' families is often problematic, e.g. in a way that it wouldn't be if the other parents were dead, fled to Mongolia, etc.

And she left the house. Is it his house that she and her kid(s) moved into, or is it their community property, or what?

So IMO a lot of highly-relevant details are missing.

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No reconciliation without a negative pregnancy test and a clean STD test including the herp.

I mean, the dog could go to live on a farm upstate


ETA: Hell, the more I read it maybe the wife and her kids can go live on a farm upstate

She moved out and bought a dog and he begged her to come back. He’s hooked. She can now come and go as she pleases. No telling what she’ll bring back next time. He’s given her the vacation and then come back free card.

Divorce won’t be pretty, but it’ll help avoid all the future BS she will put him through.