Loois lives. Loois the paraplegic pit bull, that is. The dog, made popular in a 2007 Spokesman-Review story and online video, died in 2011. Yet Loois is now a worldwide cybersensation thanks to, well, a bit of Internet larceny. Numbers tell an amazing story. The S-R’s YouTube video, created by my friend and ace photojournalist Dan Pelle, has racked up 1,726,068 plays since it debuted some eight years ago. Impressive. The original video, however, was pirated two months ago and placed on a Turkish Facebook site. The original dialogue and all Spokesman references were stripped away. But as a testimony to the powerful images, this version of Loois, now backed by a semi-cheesy piano soundtrack, has accumulated 40,169,569 plays/Doug Clark, SR. More here.