They differ on 1 of 4 dimensions.
Joins in · Tries new things · Keeps some space · Regular hours
When a parcel arrives, it is the first to inspect it and stays until the box is open. It likes being in the room where people are, but not being picked up. Around the same time each day it reminds you about dinner, then waits for the usual wand-toy game.
Read the type guide · ENTJ
Joins in · Likes the familiar · Keeps some space · Regular hours
In the morning it makes a round of the house to see what everyone is doing. It likes being near people but has its own seat and would rather not be held. It wants the old toy, and if dinner is late it comes to tell you.
Read the type guide · ESTJOn 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.
You set down a new scratching post and it has started the inspection before your hands have left the base.
You start tidying the shelf and it comes to stand beside you, checking where everything goes.
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.
While you fold the laundry it sits on its own mat a few steps away and watches, without leaning in.
It takes the stool next to your chair, facing the same way as you, without leaning in.
Each may want a seat of its own instead of a shared one. Separate perches within sight of each other let them be in the same room without touching.
The day ends in the basket at the end of the hallway, the same one as every night.
At night it is in the basket at the end of the hallway, right on time.
Meals, play and naps may fall at the same times for both. Feed them at set times in separate places, so a shared routine does not turn into a contest over one bowl.
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.
It inspected the ball track the day you brought it home, as it does anything new, and now sits by the track waiting for you to start a game.
It sits by the ball track it has always used and waits for you to start the usual round.
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.
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
