In Vulture’s video series Mad About It, we obsessively dig into the most frustrating plot holes and unanswered questions across pop culture.

Remember Homeward Bound? The movie with the most emotional ending of the 1990s? The movie where two dogs and a cat somehow manage to survive a cruel gauntlet of nature’s most devious tricks? Right, that one. There’s a scene in that movie where Sassy the cat, voiced by Sally Field, gets swept over a huge waterfall and survives. But could a cat really walk away from a fall like that unscathed?