"I was friends with two brothers whose parents wanted you to take your shoes OFF when going into the basement. You could wear them in the house, but not the basement. The basement wasn't finished; it was just a concrete-floored basement, but we couldn't wear shoes. I found out why years later from one of the brothers, and it's kinda gross."
"My friend's house always smelled like dog pee and poop. Not overpowering, but it was definitely there. During the day, when everyone was at school or work, they kept the dogs in the basement, and they would poop and pee down there. Their parents would clean it up, but just wipe it up. Basically, we were playing on a floor that hadn't been cleaned, just given a once-over with the cleaning."
A household enforced a rule forbidding shoes in the basement while allowing them elsewhere. The basement was unfinished with a concrete floor and footwear was not permitted there. Dogs were confined to the basement during daytime and frequently urinated and defecated on the floor. Parents cleaned the waste only by wiping it up rather than performing a thorough cleaning. The floor retained odors of urine and feces and likely harbored waste particles. The shoe prohibition aimed to prevent tracking contaminants from the basement throughout the house while permitting socks on the basement floor.
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