They differ on 3 of 4 dimensions.
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 · ESFP
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.
It brushes its whole side along your leg in passing, then turns back to do it again.
Once you settle with a book, it rests its cheek and one paw on your arm and stays there.
They may want the same lap. Sit where there is room on both sides, give each cat some time with you on its own, and pause the petting now and then so either one can leave.
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.
It sees you sit down on the floor and comes straight over, tail up.
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.
The familiar ball is all it needs: it stretches out a paw and the game has started.
A new toy is sniffed slowly from one end to the other before the first careful pat.
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.
It falls asleep on the big cushion next to whoever is on the sofa, at no particular time of day.
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
