I am confused between otherkin and otherhearted

I don’t understand when someone says “identifying with rather than as” something nonhuman, and often times, when I think about the animals I connect to, I seem to fall under both somehow?

I tend to identify as that animal when I display their behaviors, yet when I don’t act like that animal, I relate to their actions and behavior. For example, I consider myself a cat when I act like a cat or enter the psychological state of one. But when I’m not in that state, i see myself in them yet don’t identify as one. It’s the same with red foxes too. So now I’m confused.