{"id":592,"date":"2025-12-01T18:53:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/?p=592"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:53:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:53:48","slug":"popeyes-paw-needs-your-help-on-giving-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/popeyes-paw-needs-your-help-on-giving-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Popeye&#8217;s Paw Needs Your Help on GIVING TUESDAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-593\" src=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pp-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pp-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pp.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Tomorrow is &#8220;Giving Tuesday&#8221; and we&#8217;re asking all DOGGY LOVERS to help parents, &amp; pups with <span class=\"html-span xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs\">Megaesophagus<\/span> (ME), by making a donation to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span class=\"html-span xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs\"><a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xkrqix3 x1sur9pj x1fey0fg x1s688f\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61577818040181\"><span class=\"xt0psk2\"><span class=\"xjp7ctv\">Popeye&#8217;s Paw <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Popeye was\u00a0 a brave warrior in New Jersey, who, along with his daddy, fought hard for his life after acquiring the disease, in which <span class=\"qa-highlight svelte-x57wqa\"><span class=\"svelte-x57wqa\">the muscular tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach, becomes enlarged (dilated) and loses its ability to contract properly<\/span><\/span><span class=\"svelte-x57wqa\">,.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"svelte-x57wqa\">This loss of function prevents food and liquid from moving into the stomach, causing them to accumulate in the esophagus. After his brave struggle, this sweet boy succumbed to the disease in February, 2003, breaking his daddy&#8217;s heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Popeye&#8217;s daddy founded a charity in his sweet boy&#8217;s name in June, 2025 to honor and remember Popeye, and to help other ME pups survive and thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Just click on that <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">red link<\/span><\/strong> above (opens on FACEBOOK), and you can help provide funds for ME pet pawrents to buy or build a &#8220;Bailey Chair,&#8221; via VENMO OR PAYPAL.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Doggies with ME can sit upright in a\u00a0 &#8220;Bailey Chair&#8221; while they eat their meals and drink, and this helps their food and water stay down and get into their stomachs, so they can receive the nutrition and hydration they need to stay alive.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your generosity will save doggy lives! It&#8217;s fully tax deductible, and our official\u00a0 IRS EIN (employer ID number) number is 39-2599811.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t6c\/1\/16\/2764.png\" alt=\"\u2764\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tde\/1\/16\/1f43e.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc3e\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t6c\/1\/16\/2764.png\" alt=\"\u2764\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span> THANK YOU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is &#8220;Giving Tuesday&#8221; and we&#8217;re asking all DOGGY LOVERS to help parents, &amp; pups with Megaesophagus (ME), by making a donation to Popeye&#8217;s Paw . Popeye was\u00a0 a brave warrior in New Jersey, who, along with his daddy, fought hard for his life after acquiring the disease, in which the muscular tube that carries &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/popeyes-paw-needs-your-help-on-giving-tuesday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Popeye&#8217;s Paw Needs Your Help on GIVING TUESDAY!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[268,240,13,307,365],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}