I was cleaning the counter tops in the kitchen for mouse dropping, grumbling all the time and wondering if scat only referred to animals in the wild or if it also covered domestic ones, if mice can be considered domestic.
And all this thinking led me to check the word scat which led to scatology and then to muscerdae, Latin for mouse droppings.
So when I next grumble about cleaning the mouse dropping from the kitchen counters, I can instead grumble about cleaning muscerdae, so much more elegant.