Bark Bark Barking!

[PoppyDog]

Poppy is not a barker so to speak.

She will bark at specific things, like if someone comes to the door or if someone walks past our fence. She will bark at dogs on the T.V, pigs on the T.V AND the Elephants on the Optus T.V ad!

Yesterday evening she kept going outside and barking. I would call her in and she would sit with us for a while then back outside and bark. I went to the door and told her "No, SHHH!" numerous times and eventually just shut the back door!

Anyway this morning when I let her out I noticed a HUGE digger at our back fence, almost hanging OVER our fence! She barked at it! THAT is what she was barking at last night!

The block behind us is un-developed and I'm assuming that is going to change over the coming weeks. Any advice on how to teach Poppy that she doesn't need to bark at the digger and workman etc etc that I am sure will frequent the block behind us over the next few weeks?

Thanks in advance!