They differ on 2 of 4 dimensions.
Joins in · Tries new things · Stays close · Regular hours
Take out a toy and it comes right over, happy to try a new game. It likes being with people and sitting close to them. When the usual playtime comes around, it comes to find you.
Read the type guide · ENFJ
Joins in · Likes the familiar · Stays close · Goes with the moment
Whoever is home, it heads for them, rubs against them and rolls onto its side. Any time is a good time for a familiar toy, and when it tires it sleeps in the sun next to someone. There is no telling when it will come looking for you.
Read the type guide · ESFPOn these dimensions the two type descriptions lean the same way. Similar habits can mean easy company, and also wanting the same spot at the same time.
Your morning starts and it is already at your feet, tail up, ready to come along.
It sees you sit down on the floor and comes straight over, tail up.
They may turn up in the same room, or at the same door, at the same moment. Offer more than one place to settle near you, such as two perches or two spots on the sofa, so neither has to wait for the other to move.
When you come through the door it is already leaning its cheek against your leg.
It brushes its whole side along your leg in passing, then turns back to do it again.
They may want the same lap. Sit where there is room on both sides, give each cat some time with you on its own, and pause the petting now and then so either one can leave.
On these dimensions the descriptions lean in opposite directions. A difference is not a problem; it shows where each cat may need a choice of its own.
A new scratcher and a ball you roll toward it: it tries both, as long as you stay in the game.
The familiar ball is all it needs: it stretches out a paw and the game has started.
A new toy may interest only one of them. Bring new things in without taking the old ones away, and let the more cautious cat watch from a distance for as long as it likes.
After a full day it curls up against you on the sofa, as it does most evenings.
It falls asleep on the big cushion next to whoever is on the sofa, at no particular time of day.
One cat’s playtime may be the other’s nap. Keep the routine steady for the cat that relies on it, and offer the other a short game somewhere else when it gets going at an odd hour.
These steps are the same for any two cats, whatever their types. Go at the pace of the less comfortable cat.
This compares type descriptions for fun. How two cats actually get along depends on each cat and their home. How it works
