They differ on 1 of 4 dimensions.
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 · INFJ
Prefers quiet · Likes the familiar · Stays close · Regular hours
In the evening, when you sit in your usual seat, it comes over and lies down against you. It hangs back when there are many people but likes to stay close to the ones it knows. Where and when it rests hardly changes.
Read the type guide · ISFJOn 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.
Its favorite company is one quiet person: it sits at the window while you read, a cushion between you.
It skips the busy rooms and sits beside you on the sofa while you fold the blanket.
They may choose the same quiet spot. Offer several quiet resting places, in different rooms or at different heights, so each can be alone without having to guard a favorite corner.
Once you settle with a book, it rests its cheek and one paw on your arm and stays there.
It leans its cheek into your hand and keeps it there for as long as you stay still.
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.
Every evening it curls up on the same folded blanket at the end of the sofa.
It sleeps on the folded blanket beside your reading chair, in the same place each night.
Meals, play and naps may fall at the same times for both. Feed them at set times in separate places, so a shared routine does not turn into a contest over one bowl.
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.
A new toy is sniffed slowly from one end to the other before the first careful pat.
The cloth ball it has always played with still wins, all the more with your hand nearby.
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.
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
