They differ on 3 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.
Read the type guide · ESFJ
Prefers quiet · Likes the familiar · Keeps some space · Goes with the moment
It spends most of its time on its own and can bat an old toy around the familiar rug for ages. When you are in the room, it watches from a stool and rarely comes over. There is no set time for play or sleep.
Read the type guide · ISTPOn 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.
The evening game is the one it knows: you roll the cloth ball and it trots along behind.
It crouches on the rug and bats the same old ball back and forth, with nobody watching.
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.
With the family sitting on the living-room rug, it settles in the middle of everyone.
It makes a quiet lap of the empty living room and stops to inspect a patch of sun on the floor.
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.
You open the door and it is at your ankles, winding around them with its tail up.
It sits on the stool by the sofa while you rest, looking out over the room, a comfortable gap in between.
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.
Between games it stretches out on the floor cushion and sleeps, the tunnel still set up behind it.
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
