They differ on 2 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.
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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.
Someone walks in with a paper bag and it comes over at once to see who came and what is inside.
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.
Mid-afternoon it falls asleep on the cushion, the tunnel and ball left where the game stopped.
It falls asleep on the big cushion next to whoever is on the sofa, at no particular time of day.
Play may start at any hour, and one cat’s burst of energy may land in the middle of the other’s nap. Keep food, water, litter and resting places steady even when the day is not, and set up a nap spot away from where they play.
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 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.
At the table it takes the other chair: part of things, but on its own seat.
It brushes its whole side along your leg in passing, then turns back to do it again.
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.
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
