Natasha O'Brien launches blistering attack on Government
Natasha O’Brien has hit out at the government after a social media campaign offered youngsters advice on moving back in with their parents.
The Limerick activist currently lives at home with her own mother, and took to social media in recent days detailing her anguish at having to rehome her dog, Roxy.
Natasha has been left with no other choice but to rehome the German Shephard rescue as her mother is unhappy having the dog in the home.
Natasha O’Brien has hit out at the government after a social media campaign offered youngsters advice on moving back in with their parents. Pic: Fran Veale
Taking to social media on Monday, Natasha detailed how she had been ‘crying my eyes out all day’ following news her ‘little angel’ Roxy had to be rehomed.
‘My mom just doesn’t want her in the home, and I live at home with my mum because of the housing crisis,’ Natasha tearfully explained: ‘I’ve had her a month and she’s just such a sweetheart, and my mom is looking to rehome her now because she just doesn’t want her anymore.’
An emotional Natasha shared that she had had the dog since the beginning of November.
The Limerick activist currently lives at home with her own mother, and took to social media in recent days detailing her anguish at having to rehome her dog, Roxy. Pic: Instagram/ Natasha O’Brien
‘She nipped my mam at the weekend when I wasn’t there and my mam was fixing the blanket on Roxy’s bed,’ Natasha wrote on Instagram.
‘I know it was probably harmless because sometimes when she’s in her bed she just likes her space and my mam said she was like fixing the blanket on the bed when I wasn’t at home and Roxy snapped at her but because she’s a dog, she’s a rescue dog, she’s still getting to know us,’ Natasha reasoned.
‘I don’t know her past, it might’ve been a scary past. I know she just needs her own space and she needs patience and compassion and yeah, my mam just isn’t happy for him to be in this house anymore so I’ve to rehome her.’
Natasha went on to say she was was heartbroken following the news and told her followers how much Roxy had come on in just four weeks of being at their home. Pic: Instagram/ Natasha O’Brien
Natasha went on to say she was heartbroken following the news and told her followers how much Roxy had come on in just four weeks of being at their home.
‘That’s only a month, she could be a different dog in three months,’ Natasha said.
Natasha later followed up to share a post regarding a recent social media campaign shared by the Department of Housing, which offered youngsters advice on moving back in with their parents.
An emotional Natasha shared that she had had the dog since the beginning of November. Pic: Instagram/ Natasha O’Brien
The campaign has been branded ‘tone deaf’ and ‘patronizing’ with Natasha weighing in on the matter.
She said: ‘Gov are SERIOUSLY offering young people “advice” on how to cope with moving back in with parents?? Be FOR REAL???
‘Maybe if Gov policies didn’t push up home prices & rent I wouldn’t have to REHOME MY DOG at 26 years of age because my mother doesn’t like her??’
Natasha added that she ‘absolutely’ was blaming the Government for her heartbreak as she would be in her own home if she could afford it.
‘Add animal cruelty onto the list of gov failures bc [because] I now have to retraumatize and abandon an innocent animal simply bc [because] I can’t afford to move out in this economy.
‘So DO NOT LECTURE US on how to live in our parents’ homes.’
