You ' re definitely right , and its one of those statistics traps that people fall into constantly . The statement Cats always , probably , or usually survive falls at terminal velocity you could probably consider a myth . However , I don ' t consider it a total myth and its still fun trivia in my opinion . Surviving a fall from a 10 story building is virtually impossible for a human but , if you dropped 100 cats you ' d have quite a few cats survive . which is pretty freaking neat even if those stats are the result of oversampling the survivors . People hear the stat and its interesting because they see cats as somewhat humanoid , so its counterintuitive that cats are able to survive enormous falls and they do so in nontrivial numbers . Enough to gather stats on them , at least .