[jpiatt]

I have an 8 month old Chi. He's paper trained (or so we thought) and crate trained. Recently he's been caught taking the poo off of his pad and eating it. If we're home, we clean it up right away, but there are times when he goes (like when we're all getting ready in the morning) and we didn't realize he'd gone and he gets to it before we do. We thought this was the only problem and purchased some for-bid to see if that would fix it. However my kids have seen him pooing on the rug or his window blanket. I've never caught him in the act of going anywhere he shouldn't so I don't really know how to handle this and they just yell for me! We only crate him at night. The kids just started school recently and I'm wondering if this is some kind of separation anxiety thing, a behavior problem or if we didn't train him properly.