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Yes, pet owners who live in no-shoes households. I live in Japan, basically everyone here does it. I do it as well.

If you have pets and want your floors (and sofas, and beds) to stay clean, you need to wipe/wash their paws. It takes like 30 seconds.

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Interesting, as someone who lives in the states, most people I know have shoes-off households, but even those with pets don't ever wipe off the paws of their animals.

I've never even heard of anyone doing that, until reading your comment.

May be more cultural than you suspect.

After watching American TV shows and films I would never have guessed it was mostly shoes off in the States :)

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