What is this off switch thing you speak of?
Seriously though, Zora has never really had an off switch. Someone sitting on the sofa is basically her on switch. It take at least half and hour to an hour to get her to lie down when I want to hang out on the couch. Before then though you generally have a nose on your laptop, in you your book or in your face. Then comes the toy bringing, then comes the chewing (I swear that dog is actually a beaver) and nudging and then comes the barking. At some point she will lay down though.
When she was younger we had to make her sleep (she's more uncontrolable when she's tired) as in putting her in her crate in a dark room for an hour or so. She would NOT settle down on her own - she was always GO GO GO GO!
We are trying to teach her an off switch - it has worked brilliantly (not). Maybe she'll get it some day. But, it's just how she is.
Seriously though, Zora has never really had an off switch. Someone sitting on the sofa is basically her on switch. It take at least half and hour to an hour to get her to lie down when I want to hang out on the couch. Before then though you generally have a nose on your laptop, in you your book or in your face. Then comes the toy bringing, then comes the chewing (I swear that dog is actually a beaver) and nudging and then comes the barking. At some point she will lay down though.
When she was younger we had to make her sleep (she's more uncontrolable when she's tired) as in putting her in her crate in a dark room for an hour or so. She would NOT settle down on her own - she was always GO GO GO GO!
We are trying to teach her an off switch - it has worked brilliantly (not). Maybe she'll get it some day. But, it's just how she is.