Judy Hopps sat on her bed sniffling, could she be a real cop?  Suddenly her phone rang.  It was her Mom and Dad.  Otherwise known and Bonnie and Stu Hopps, successful carrot farmers who had over 100 children.  

"Judy! How are you sweetie?  How was your first day as a police officer?  Was it fun?"  the questions from her parents just made her sadder.

"It was amazing, but Mom and Dad, I'm really tired, can I talk to you guys tomorrow?  Thanks."  then she hung up.

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The next day Judy hopped out of bed and rushed to the police station.  She rushed past Clawhauser, Clancy, a boxing kangaroo officer who went by the name Smash, and rushed into the conference room were an important meeting was to be occurred.  She rushed in, barely missing about five feet that were nearly going to squash her.  She hopped really far up and saw an empty seat.  She got hopped all the way to the chair and stood on it(if she sat she would be seeing the bottom of the table).  Chief Bogo entered and the room immediately quieted.

"Hello everybody." Chief Bogo began."We have about 24 missing mammal cases and the town hall is right up my tail in order to find them.  We are missing a respected panther lawyer, the tiger quintuplets, Leonard the lion, who mind you is the mayors good son, the twelve cheetah brothers(don't ask, I don't know their names), a badger from Ice Cold Drinks Shop, and three of the four giant pandas.  Oh! And there is also a tiny otter missing."

He started to assign officers a mammal to search for.  Everybody was gone by the time he finished. The respected panther lawyer went to Clancy, the tiger quintuplets went to the three rhinos and the two hippos that worked for the station, Leonard the lion went to Smash, the twelve cheetah brothers went to the twelve best officers, the pandas went to Bing, Bong, and Bang(the highly respected gazelle officers).  The only thing left was the otter.  And there was no one left accept for Judy.

"May I look into the missing otter case?"  Judy said

Reluctantly the chief looked down," Fine, but I'll only give you two days..."

Judy squealed in delight, but stopped when the chief glared down and said,"You know, there in a catch." he said placing a wicked smile on his face as he looked at Judy's falling face,"If you don't find the otter in two days, you can never ever join back into the  ZPD again, in other words, I'll fire you."  then he slapped a folder down onto Judy's desk and left.

With a confident hop, Judy set out to find Clawhauser.  He was the one who usually helped her when she needed it.  She found him at his desk eating a Boston cream donut.  

"Hey!  Officer Clawshauser?  Can you help me with a case?"  Judy asked.

"Sure, what do you need help on?" he replied.

"It'd be really helpful if you looked through this folder with me."  Judy said with a smile.

After about half an hour later, their hard work was rewarded. "Look what I found!" Clawshauser exclaimed,"The last picture of the little otter.  He's interacting with a fox."

Judy took one look at the picture and growled,"Nick...of course, he's the one responsible for kidnapping the animals."

"Now, now.  Don't jump to conclusions, little officer."  He pulled out a file,"Now it looks like this 'Nick' fellow you're talking about is naught but a little con-artist." He started to list the description,"Says here he's pulled off hundreds of tiny scams, but no ones caught him for it.  He pulled off two really big scams, and I mean HUGE."

"What happened?" Judy said, totally immersed.

"Unfortunately, he was never caught." Clawshauser said, "Bogo himself tried, but Wilde was two smart, pulled off his two clap trick on the chief and somehow got the circle of officers surrounding him on all sides, not even any breathing room for any of us." Clawshauser looked up trying to remember the details,"Bogo clapped again three times and the lights turned on and off again."  

Judy eyes opened wider,"What do you mean they turned off and on?"

"Well, little officer, you've got to clap a certain amount of times with those sly beasts.  Clap once and the lights will turn halfway off and clap once again they'll turn halfway on.  Clap twice and the lights will turn on, clap twice again and they'll turn halfway on.  Clap trice, now there's the issue.  It'll just make the lights turn off and on, making it super confusing to see.  Chief Bogo was super unhappy and basically he's just wants the little foxy caught."

"But I caught him just yesterday!"Judy cried, slightly shocked.  Didn't the big chief want Nick behind the bars, "I had him, I dragged that foolish con all the way to the police station!"

"Well.... when you dragged Nick all the way across the station and who knows where, that embarrassed the chief greatly.  No offense, but a puny little bunny like you being able to catch him.  I think the chief felt pretty bad, he didn't think to use his elephant tranquilizer gun on that wily Nick Wilde."

"Wow.." Judy said,"and I caught him?"

"Yep, honestly it's quite impressing."  Clawshauser said, "Anyway, to the matter that's in our paws currently." he paused,"You might want to check on Nick.  He may know something about our little otter friend that's missing."

"Thanks, Clawshauser!" she hugged his rotund stomach,"That's all very helpful." She waved goodbye and hopped out the door, sure that she find Nick easily.

Clawshauser looked on as she left licking his claws for the remaining glaze of the glazed donuts he had been snacking on for the last 15 minutes of the search, "That puny bunny is going to get herself killed."