You got some really good answers. I had to smile at the "rude" comment, when Ginger gets overly exuberant or pushy I tell her "bad manners will not be tolerated" (that is usually followed by the command "sit" ). Anyway, it is not aggressive, but it may be something that you may want to take some control over. You obviously do not want her knocking over your daughter. So ignore the behavior, or what I would do is to give her something appropriate to do and reward that behavior.