Neko

According to this site, in Japanese: http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html

Neko, besides cat, also means: asleep, in bed, sick in bed.

Now, I don't know if those two have some kind of correlation. But it does somehow suggest that a cat is 'lazy' and likes to sleep.

Well from my own experience, cats are active. Hunting, climbing, leaping over fences.

Just like my backyard: The cats' "natural" habitat.

I'm sure your backyard is the same.

Photo: Here we see a not-so-rare sample of a Felis catus, also known as the domestic cat. Hunting, searching for food, in the backyard;where survival of the fittest is all that counts.