I came here after reading an article about single-tasking as a way to beat stress [It’s the new hip thing to do! As opposed to formerly-hip multi-tasking…Well, I’ve always been big on single-tasking. Don’t you hate it when something you’ve always done goes mainstream? But, I digress…]
Anyway, it occurs to me that the soothingness you reference is in part that we’re picking up on the single-tasking vibe of those kitties. 
