They differ on 2 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 · Goes with the moment
Any commotion at home brings it over to look. Wiggle its familiar old toy and it is playing at once; when it has had enough, it turns and leaves, flopping down somewhere nearby. It does not care much for being held, and its hours are hard to predict.
Read the type guide · ESTPOn 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 open the toy basket and it is beside you before the lid is off, to see what comes out.
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 sits in a low box at your feet: in the front row for whatever is going on, but not on your lap.
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.
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.
The old ball rolls and it pounces from a standing start, as if seeing it for the first time.
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.
The day ends in the basket at the end of the hallway, the same one as every night.
When the game ends it lies down right there on the rug, one paw still on the ball.
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
