These colorful rubber bands function like traditional bands  but feature fun animal shapes when not holding something together.
— "We got 270 packages on Thursday and were sold out by Saturday morning. High school, middle school and elementary school kids are all buying them," Katie Rook, owner of Be Beep A Toy Shop in Columbia, S.C., told 
TDmonthly in fall 2009.
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Editors Note: This item is very similar to the 
Animal Rubber Bands by Eastern Accent Int'l, first 
reported by TDmonthly in 2005.