A young boy makes his puppy watch YouTube tutorials instead of training him goes viral

Four year old Lincoln Ball from Chickamauga Georgia has done the unthinkable by making his puppy watch training video on YouTube. Lincoln was given a puppy after his doctor discovered he was severely allergic to pollens, said his 35 years old father Daniel Ball.

"The doctor said half-jokingly, 'Well there's good news and bad news. The bad news is you're allergic to everything outside. The good news is you're not allergic to pets. You could get a puppy,'" he said. Lincoln "walked out of the doctor's office as happy as could be and said, 'This means I can get a puppy,"

Ball, said the only thing his son, the youngest of four children with wife Tasha, heard was that he could get a puppy and so the family got a Saint Bernard puppy and he told his son that it was "his responsibility to learn how to train the dog," so he suggested looking up YouTube tutorials.

"He got the video all lined up," Ball recalled, "and then he called the dog over and started playing it directly to the dog."

Lincoln's mother Tasha thought it was genius, so she snapped a picture. What the couple didn't expect was that when Lincoln's uncle posted it to Facebook that it would go viral, with more than 17,000 comments and more than 177,000 shares.
Still, Ball said his son is excited about the attention.

"We've told him. He's 4, so I don't know if he really understands. But he was telling someone who came over to the house, 'My puppy is famous,'" Ball said.