ROUGEMONT, N.C. (WNCN) — A Triangle animal sanctuary is desperately reaching out to the community for support after its Facebook page was hacked.
The Blind Spot Animal Sanctuary in Rougemont rescues all kinds of farm animals, giving them a safe place to stay and placing many of them in adoptive homes. Founder Alesja Daehnrich shares those rescue stories on Facebook, often posting multiple times per day.
Over the past decade, Daehnrich says The Blind Spot Animal Sanctuary’s Facebook page gained nearly 70,000 followers.
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“It is our lifeline,” she explained. “This is what runs the entire sanctuary; this is where our donors are coming from. This is where our adopters are coming from, volunteers, and just the entire community.”
Recently, though, Daehnrich says the sanctuary’s Facebook page was hacked. At the time, she lost access to the page itself. After contacting Meta, the parent company of FaceBook, Daehnrich says the sanctuary was able to regain access to the Facebook page but lost nearly all of its tens of thousands of followers. Without that social media audience, Daehnrich says it’s difficult to make people aware of animals that need help and the work that the sanctuary is doing. It also becomes difficult to reach potential volunteers, donors, and adopters…