BayNewsVideo is providing reality footage, as well as making its personnel available to a production company performing work for a syndidated reality TV series that airs currently on Animal Planet.

Above, a BayNewsVideo photojournalist is shown being interviewed in the San Diego area by a crew working on assignment for the Los Angeles-based production company Cheri Sundae, under the direction of field producer/interviewer Mike McNellis.

The crew is working on a segment for the program "Untamed & Uncut" that is scheduled to air sometime in the current 2008 season.

In the segment, Mark Jeannette details the dramatic and unexpected rescue of a puppy from the raging floodwaters of the Pajaro River in Santa Cruz County during a fateful night when the levee broke in the mid-90s. The rain-swollen river had been threatening to overflow its banks after days of rain from a fierce winter storm.

Mr. Jeannette documented the rescue by firefighters, who had originally been summoned to investigate reports that a man had been spotted struggling in the water.

As fate would have it, a member of the county's Swift Water Rescue Team searching the river heard the plaintive sound of a whimpering animal and rescued it from near certain death.

"Untamed & Uncut" is Animal Planet's hit show that airs Sunday's at 9 p.m. eastern time documenting real-life dramas as animals and humans encounter unexpected and bizarre situations around the globe.

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