They differ on 3 of 4 dimensions.
Joins in · Tries new things · Keeps some space · Goes with the moment
When guests come, it goes over to sniff their shoes and bags. Give it a new toy and it often finds a use you did not expect. It likes to wander around where people are, without always wanting to be touched. When it plays and where it sleeps change from day to day.
Read the type guide · ENTP
Joins in · Likes the familiar · Stays close · Regular hours
At the sound of keys it runs to the door and follows you in, rubbing against your legs. When the family gathers in the living room, it squeezes onto the sofa too. It asks to be petted at about the same times each day and plays the same few games.
Read the type guide · ESFJOn 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.
Someone walks in with a paper bag and it comes over at once to see who came and what is inside.
With the family sitting on the living-room rug, it settles in the middle of everyone.
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.
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.
Two empty boxes become a passage, and it steps through to see where the game goes next.
The evening game is the one it knows: you roll the cloth ball and it trots along behind.
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.
At the table it takes the other chair: part of things, but on its own seat.
You open the door and it is at your ankles, winding around them with its tail up.
Closeness that one cat offers, the other may not want. Watch whether the cat being approached stays, moves away or turns its head, and make sure it always has a way out.
Mid-afternoon it falls asleep on the cushion, the tunnel and ball left where the game stopped.
It curls up in its corner of the sofa beside whoever is sitting there, as it does every night.
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
