Politicians want to force the owners of the city's 12,000 dogs to register for compulsory DNA tests, so that any careless deposit on a pavement or in a park can be tested and traced to the animal responsible - triggering a hefty fine for its registered owner.
"In this way, Dresden will once again be one of the cleanest cities in Germany," said Roland Putzger, the leader of the local council.
"You hardly get out the door and the obstacle course begins," reported the German television news programme, Tagesschau.
"The way to the supermarket, the way to work and the way to the bus stop are all smeared with dog dirt."
But the fear that the dog's deed will no longer remain anonymous could be enough to conquer the problem, said Karl Jobig, a Christian Democrat politician in Dresden.
Mr Jobig and his colleagues were so fed up with dodging the obstacle course that the matter was raised at an advisory council meeting. To their surprise, the DNA suggestion received a majority vote.
It is now proposed that Dresdeners will have to register their dogs for "genetic fingerprinting" to be collected from blood or saliva.
The notion that this might infringe "canine rights" has been dismissed by Saxony's data protection commissioner, Andreas Schurig, who ruled that as dogs were not human they had no rights over their data and could not object to the compulsory tests.
The proposal will be binding if it receives a majority vote at a Dresden city council meeting in May.
DNA from registered dogs would be collected from blood or saliva for the "genetic fingerprinting" service. (Wikimedia file)
 Ratsmitglieder des Stadtrates von Dresden möchten gerne DNA-Proben von Hundehaufen auf Gehwegen und in Parks nehmen und mithilfe einer DNA-Datenbank mit allen DNA-Daten aller 12.000 in Dresden registrierten Hunde abgleichen. Karl Jobig, ein Christdemokrat in Dresden, war überrascht, als sein Antrag die Mehrheit gewann.

„In this way, Dresden will once again be one of the cleanest cities in Germany“, sagte Roland Putzger, der Vorsitzende das Stadtrates ''The Guardian''.

Die DNA-Daten der registrierten Hunde werden durch Blut- oder Speichelproben entnommen.

Sachsens Datenschützer, Andreas Schurig, sagte aber, dass Hunde keine Rechte über ihre Daten haben und diese gesetzlichen Tests nicht realisieren könnten.

Der Antrag wird gültig, wenn er im Mai 2005 die Mehrheit im Konzil erreicht.