MUMBAI: USA Today Live, the television arm of print major USA Today, has produced an hour long television documentary for Animal Planet. The documentary focuses on the heartwarming reunions of animals and their human friends in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Titled Animal Planet Heroes: Hurricane Reunions, it will premiere this Saturday, 26 November at 8 pm. The program reveals the journeys of people and their pets as they struggled to survive, suffered painful separations and were finally brought back together in emotional reunions, states an official release.

The production house shot original footage in the hurricane-struck states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, as well as in Florida, Arizona, and Washington, D.C.

According to the release, the documentary is a follow-up to USA Today Live's Animal Planet Heroes: Hurricane Rescues special that aired in September.