u/ChanceQuiet795

This is my girl Galadriel.

November 2025, I began to saw her around my neighborhood, pregnant.

I was very much confused, never having seen her before. My guess, is she was someone’s cat but was abandoned due to her pregnancy.

I began to monitore her.

December 23, she had her babies, and brought them right to my door, as if asking for help. 5 babies.

I put the babies in a box and managed to bring them inside, but she wouldn’t let me close to her. On December 24, we got a live trap, and managed to get her too.

She adapted normally to my house. We already had other cats so we kept her private in my room. She began to feed her babies, and she never once meowed at the door, scratched it, or tried to escape. In fact, we could leave the door open and she would stay in my room.

Time passed. The babies grew up and I couldn’t keep them all. I gave 3 of them to close friends. I kept Galadriel and two of her babies.

Now, she is my cat. And I so desperately want to give her love, but even after so much time here, she’s scared of me. She lets me pet her but I see the hint of distrust there, and I can never pick her up. I don’t know what she went through or who hurt her, for her to be like this.

We began to introduce him and her babies to my cats and the rest of the house. While the babies wander off, explore and socialize, Galadriel stays in my room, even with the door open, she doesn’t want to go outside and explore the house.

And when she does, she just hides under the couch.

I’m so worried. I just want her to have peace and live normally with the other cats, but she’s so scared of the time. I think something traumatized her, I’m just not sure how to help…