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
Prefers quiet · Tries new things · Stays close · Regular hours
It keeps away when the house is busy. Once things quiet down, it jumps onto the arm of the sofa and sits beside you. It walks over slowly to look at a new toy, plays for a while, then comes back. Most evenings it shows up at that spot around the same time.
Read the type guide · INFJOn 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.
Two empty boxes become a passage, and it steps through to see where the game goes next.
A new toy is sniffed slowly from one end to the other before the first careful pat.
They may reach a new box, bag or toy at the same time. Put out two boxes instead of one and rotate the toys, so neither has to wait its turn to look.
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.
Someone walks in with a paper bag and it comes over at once to see who came and what is inside.
Its favorite company is one quiet person: it sits at the window while you read, a cushion between you.
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.
At the table it takes the other chair: part of things, but on its own seat.
Once you settle with a book, it rests its cheek and one paw on your arm and stays there.
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.
Every evening it curls up on the same folded blanket at the end of the sofa.
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
