The Humane Society of the United States         Membership   One Time   Monthly   Major/Planned   Memorial (For pets and people)   Gift Donation       Ring in 2006 right with an easy-to-keep New Year's resolution. Choose from our list of ten ready-made resolutions to find simple ways you can help animals all year long.   More>> Also: The top 12 animal stories of 2005. Slideshow:   Our year of working for the animals. Video: Wayne Pacelle looks back, and forward.       Windows Media       Real Video      Our Katrina spending: $20 mil and counting      Support our disaster work.       Visit our Disaster Center. Bucking the Ban The USDA considers sidestepping a new federal law banning horse slaughter, drawing outrage in Congress.  More>>            Tell the USDA to enforce the slaughter ban. Cracking Open a Cruelty Case A Pennsylvania humane officer files animal cruelty charges against an egg factory farm where laying hens were allegedly impaled on cage wires. More>> Smart Science Chimpanzees and taxpayers alike will benefit from the National Center for Research Resources' recent decision to extend a breeding moratorium for research chimps.  More>>      More than $4 million in HSUS grants floods into the Gulf to help animal shelters affected by Katrina. The USDA considers a scheme that would undermine Congress and the new horse slaughter ban. Access denied: Greenland eliminates all purchases of Canadian sealskins, delivering a blow to Canada's commercial seal hunt.    Boston Herald : Gov. Mitt Romn