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.
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Prefers quiet · Likes the familiar · Stays close · Goes with the moment
It likes to curl up somewhere quiet, most often on one well-worn blanket. When it wants company, it comes over and leans against you on its own. How long it stays and when it plays are hard to predict.
Read the type guide · ISFPOn 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.
Mid-afternoon it falls asleep on the cushion, the tunnel and ball left where the game stopped.
It naps on the blanket on the bench when it gets sleepy: mid-morning today, perhaps late afternoon tomorrow.
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.
Someone walks in with a paper bag and it comes over at once to see who came and what is inside.
It settles on its blanket by the window and watches leaf shadows move in a quiet room.
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.
Two empty boxes become a passage, and it steps through to see where the game goes next.
Play means reaching one paw from the usual blanket to tap the usual ball.
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.
When it wants company it walks over and rests its head against your hand.
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
