Is a domestic dog a wild animal?
Is a stray dog a wild animal?
Is a stray dog a wild animal if you see it in the woods?
Is a stray dog a wild animal if you see it in the woods and call its name (because you recognise its picture from a "Missing" advert), and take a photo of it running towards you?

Is a "tame" wolf a domestic animal?
Is an escaped tame wolf a wild animal?...
If you let it out the cage is it still an "escaped tame wolf"?

see my thinking.  Not really cheating, but thinking outside of the box in my book.

But yes - for the future of the competition and the sweet victory that is getting a great wildlife shot properly in the wild then i think he should be banned and more stringent rules applied.

Still a fantastic photo... i have a postcard of it on my wall...

"In every colour, there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the Dolphin"

Rich Meadows Photography