They differ on 2 of 4 dimensions.
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.
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Joins in · Likes the familiar · Keeps some space · Goes with the moment
Any commotion at home brings it over to look. Wiggle its familiar old toy and it is playing at once; when it has had enough, it turns and leaves, flopping down somewhere nearby. It does not care much for being held, and its hours are hard to predict.
Read the type guide · ESTPOn 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.
With the family sitting on the living-room rug, it settles in the middle of everyone.
You open the toy basket and it is beside you before the lid is off, to see what comes out.
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.
The evening game is the one it knows: you roll the cloth ball and it trots along behind.
The old ball rolls and it pounces from a standing start, as if seeing it for the first time.
A new cat, new furniture or a new smell is a big change for either of them. Change one thing at a time, and keep each cat’s own bed, blanket and favorite toy where they have always been.
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 open the door and it is at your ankles, winding around them with its tail up.
It sits in a low box at your feet: in the front row for whatever is going on, but not on your lap.
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.
It curls up in its corner of the sofa beside whoever is sitting there, as it does every night.
When the game ends it lies down right there on the rug, one paw still on the ball.
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
