In 2007, the Energy decided to take the monument under the round the clock video surveillance, etc. since several vandals spoil the boards placed on their information about the history of street lighting and painted the dog in a different color. Monument to a dog in 1935 at the initiative of the Pavlov at physiological department Institute of Experimental Medicine, in the garden of 12 on Lopukhinsky Street (now Akademika Pavlova ul) was set "Monument to a dog." In his book "The lions guard the city," Vladimir Nesterov said that in the prewar years, shortly before Pavlov's death, were carried out extensive work to repair and reconstruction of the old premises of the physiological department.