I hope someone can help because I am having the same exact problem, my archie is 6 months old and always peed and pooped on the pad until 3 days ago since he started pooing in the middle of the kitchen. I usually put in back in the playpen after each accident (and he does fine in there) but as soon as I let him loose in the gated kitchen he starts again. This is soo frustrating since he had never had a problem with the poop since day one