Catching a three animals is against the law. For the "three animals", the relevant laws provide that the private capture of 1 (strip) is illegal, capture more than 20 (strip) constitute illegal hunting crimes.
The common three animals are: geckos, hedgehogs, hares and rabbits, paintbrush, cauliflower snakes, wild boar, quail, soft-shelled turtles, yellow finches, Chinese bees.
"The Chinese people*** and the Criminal Law of the State of China" Article 341
Harming precious and endangered wildlife crime of illegally hunting, hunting, killing of precious and endangered wildlife under the state's key protection, or illegally acquiring, transporting, selling precious and endangered wildlife under the state's key protection and their products, shall be sentenced to less than five years of fixed-term imprisonment or detention, and shall be punished by a fine; the circumstances are serious. shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and not more than ten years, and shall be fined; if the circumstances are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years, and shall be fined or confiscated property.
Illegal hunting is a crime of violating hunting regulations, hunting in a prohibited area, during a prohibited period, or using prohibited tools or methods, destroying wildlife resources, and the circumstances are serious, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, control, or a fine.
Illegal hunting, acquisition, transportation, sale of terrestrial wildlife crime in violation of wildlife protection and management regulations, for the purpose of food illegal hunting, acquisition, transportation, sale of terrestrial wildlife other than those stipulated in the first paragraph of the first paragraph of the natural growth and reproduction of terrestrial wildlife in the wilderness environment, the circumstances are serious, in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, shall be punished.