MONTEREY -- Four months after Hurricane Katrina ripped him apart from his family, a beloved pet will be reunited with his owner on Friday, the Monterey County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced.

Koy, a small black and white spaniel, has been separated from his family for more than three months, the SPCA reported. He came to the SPCA of Monterey County on Sept. 21 along with 31 other dogs orphaned by Hurricane Katrina.

So far, the SPCA has reunited 13 of those wayward pups, but it had trouble initially reuniting Koy with his family because he lacked a microchip or identification.

"All he was wearing was a collar," Beth Brookhouser, Monterey County SPCA director of community outreach, said. However, "we've been lucky to enjoy a very high reunion success rate."

It wasn't until Wednesday that Fanette Craft, a Jefferson Parish, La. resident, called in to the SPCA in search of her missing dog Koy, the SPCA reported.

During that phone conversation, Craft explained to SPCA volunteers that she had left her dog at the local Jefferson Parish animal shelter, not knowing that it would be evacuated as a result of the hurricane.

When she found out that the SPCA had Koy, she got a "big old case of the giggles," Brookhouser said.

On Friday Koy will be sent on a plane bound for Louisiana, where he will meet up with Craft around 8:30 p.m., Brookhouser said.

The Monterey County SPCA has posted images of many orphaned dogs online at http://www.petfinder.com, Brookhouser said.