But what about winter when there are many degrees below zero and you then step into correspondingly cold shoes. I imagine this is not always very comfortable. And what if a mouse has made itself comfortable in a shoe or has gnawed on it. Of course, it could also have left certain things behind, just like a cat.
For the 10 meters to the compost or to the trash, I also put on cold shoes. And I doubt that a cat or mouse leaves anything in our shoes. Cats look for something soft to scratch and, from long experience with mice, I have no concerns either. In the last house, we initially had so many mice; they went for everything but not the shoes.