This is a follow up page to one I wrote on 3rd December 2017 about Steven Mishow shooting domestic cats belonging to neighbors. One of them was Olivia belonging to Pam Dowell who decided to leave the area as a result. The two others were a semi-feral named Emerald and Pumpkin a neighbour’s cat. Olivia liked to play with Pumpkin (Punky). Punky was also a beloved cat and the neighbor’s daughter was distraught over the cat’s death; ‘folded over in tears crying about her cat Punky and asking WHY, Why did this happen?’
In a very rare audio recording you can hear Mishow admitting (1) his hatred of cats and (2) his pride in shooting them. Mishow is speaking to a neighbour who recorded the conversation without Mishow’s knowledge.
Recording
Below is another version (MP4) in case the above does not play. It is quieter:
Transcript
The beginning is difficult to understand and is the voice of Mishow then the neighbour comes in. Mishow’s voice is slightly higher pitched.
“Yeh, I got it right behind the front shoulders. When they run see ya later muther fucker. I will kill every fuckin’ cat I see……That cat I seen about a week ago. Must have been a week. It’s been missing about a week. Shot the fucker. Them fuckers stink so fucking bad. They used to piss in my fucking garage.”
Dogs
Steve Hanson commenting on the original page wrote:
“Steven shot them in the ass, one cat was paralyzed instantly and he ordered his dog after them which the dog attacked and shook the death right out of them.”
Steven Mishow’s sister Rachel has defended her brother’s behaviour. She says that he didn’t intend to shot the cats dead. He used a pellet gun at a distance (240 yards) and at night she says. But Mishow says he shot the cats deliberately with the obvious intention of killing them.
To compound the admitted crime (he pleaded guilty in court) Mishow ordered his dogs after the cats to finish them off we are told. Pam says she was never able to recover the bodies of the cats. It is believed that they where ‘bagged and carried off to a dump’ the day after initial contact by Pam Dowell with law enforcement.
Pellet gun?
I don’t believe that he used a pellet gun. It was possibly a .22 calibre rifle but that is a guess. Cats often survive pellet gun shootings even when hit multiple times and they get home. In this instance one bullet killed or disabled the cats.
Pam says that she lives in a residential area a block from a school and that Mishow lives ‘across the street from my house and the Jordan’s’. We are told that Mishow knew that Pam’s cats were their pets. They were not ‘nuisance animals’.
The audio recording was played to the police and their investigation was not started until a week later. Hardly a sign of commitment to justice and law enforcement.
Cats stink
The cat hater’s argument that cats stink is a fallacy. They always say it when defending their cat shooting behaviour. Domestic cats are cleaner than most humans. Apparently Mishow’s property (that he says he was defending) was the subject of a ‘blight complaint’. Tons of garbage was in the area. It has since been removed.
Conviction
Mishow was convicted but punished lightly. This is the usual outcome.
Last comment – update
Jill has made a comment which brings us up to date – “Update to a long year of drama/theatrics for my sister Pam”. Please click this link to read it.
He is one of those people who protects his property. Again the picture u are showing is not his. I sent u a post from 2016. The photo u are saying was his garbage was from people prior. He cleaned that property up. The information being spoon fed to u are lies. You can do better MICHEAL.
Yes he removed the stuff immediately. He took posession of the property waste management delivered. A commercial grade dumpster. He paid for it. He got rid of it.
Okay but did he remove the stuff after he moved in? And in any case you have been telling me stuff which is simply untrue. I am doing my best to tell the truth. It seems that you do your best to tell untruths.
Steven Hanson, your gonna post yet false informtion. I read every single report and interview. Stevens (my brother) dog is not violent at all. He is a very gentle 12 year old dog. So, if the cat was paralyzed. That means that there was a body? NO found the any bodies. So once again your article is based on lies.
Getting Old Micheal, Getting Old. Do you ever fact check before your make another story. That picture was taken 2 years before Steven lived on that property. Those pictures where posted years ago on a facebook post. I believe those are diapers in that boat. My brother doesnt own a boat, nor a truck. For the love of GOD, will you report facts
This is Minnesota. I remember ringing up a person working in the department concerned with hunting and they were ambivalent about whether you could hunt feral cats or not. This man’s sister gave me the impression on the telephone when I spoke to her that it’s okay to hunt feral cats and they don’t seem to mind whether they make a mistake and the cat is a domestic cat in someone’s pet. The shooters fudge this issue.
The problem I think is that enforcement is very poor. Most states obviously forbid the shooting of feral cats because it is animal cruelty and if you shoot a cat you might be shooting a domestic cat which is both animal cruelty and what I would call “criminal damage”. Law enforcement is weak in this area and a lot of people seem to consider it okay and the police seem to agree with them. This leads to fudging of animal welfare laws. Mishow was not fearful of being caught and prosecuted for a crime. And when convicted he received a weak punishment.
Common sense says that the shooting of any cat is animal cruelty unless it is done for a very specific reason and at very close range. These are great exceptions.
There’s no doubt in my mind that there is a segment of society in America who treat feral cats as legitimate targets for people with rifles and they often get away with it and think that they are doing nothing wrong.
I have done quite a lot of work on whether it is illegal to shoot feral cats in America and when I have telephoned the authorities in the states they normally say that it is illegal in the law backs them up.