Wilbourn suggests a multifaceted approach with cats, including a lot of feeding, petting, name-crooning and general attention around the time that cat and baby meet.
This time around two-thirds of Cat's product line is for economic sectors that have been in recession, estimates machinery analyst John McGinty of Credit Suisse First Boston.
In this story Pi must remain acutely aware of distance: the distance between him and the big cat, the restricted space of the lifeboat, and the overwhelming open horizons of the ocean all around him.