They differ on 3 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
Prefers quiet · Likes the familiar · Keeps some space · Goes with the moment
It spends most of its time on its own and can bat an old toy around the familiar rug for ages. When you are in the room, it watches from a stool and rarely comes over. There is no set time for play or sleep.
Read the type guide · ISTPOn 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.
While you fold the laundry it sits on its own mat a few steps away and watches, without leaning in.
It sits on the stool by the sofa while you rest, looking out over the room, a comfortable gap in between.
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.
You set down a new scratching post and it has started the inspection before your hands have left the base.
It makes a quiet lap of the empty living room and stops to inspect a patch of sun on the floor.
Their days may cross only now and then, and that is fine. Keep a resting place the quieter cat can reach without passing through the busy part of the home, and let the more social one come to you for company.
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 crouches on the rug and bats the same old ball back and forth, with nobody watching.
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.
Between games it stretches out on the floor cushion and sleeps, the tunnel still set up behind it.
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
