Isabella or Izzy as her friends call her is the 12 year old daughter of two Zookeepers at the Niagara Falls Zoo. She helps her mom and dad all the time at the zoo and brings along her stuffed toy cheetah named Spotty. One cheetah at the zoo is especially interested in the toy and thinks it is real. Izzy’s home like the zoo is filled with all kinds of animals from lizards to chickens to goats to fish, both fresh and salt water. One day one of the cheetahs gets loose from the zoo and comes dangerously close to Niagara Falls. Izzy thinks fast and uses her stuffed toy Spotty to lure the cheetah out of harms way. The cheetah is given the name Nia for Niagara and lives a great life back at the zoo with her old friend Izzy!