Is it illegal to raise a ball python, and will there be a sentence for raising a ball python

As long as there is no poison and there is no opposition from the surrounding neighbors, it is not a crime.

These animals are a bit peculiar, and it's best to ask for permission from the neighbors around them.

If you are in a cage, you don't need to ask for consent.

It is not illegal to raise pythons, but it is illegal to sell pythons.

As long as it does not endanger the interests of others, it is not illegal.

If it is a national first-class protected animal, it can only be handed in.

The relevant authorities may confiscate it.

It is illegal to keep a ball python, but there is no sentence.

The ball python is an alien species to China, and China does not include it in its protection list. However, as one of the signatories to the Washington Convention, the ball python is a protected animal in the appendix of the Washington Convention, so China manages and protects it with reference to the national second-class key protected wild animals.

Pythons live in Central and West Africa, from Senegal to Uganda, from grasslands to woods, and they feel as comfortable in the trees as they are on the ground. They prefer low-light environments, and at dawn and dusk, they become active. In Europe, it is called the "king python", but in the United States it is called the "ball python", because when they feel nervous, they will curl their body into a very tight ball and hide their head firmly in the center.

Like many other pythons, the ball python is a gentle snake. Feeds mainly on small mammals. In rearing, ball pythons can grow up to a foot per year for the first three years and become adult individuals in three to five years.

It has been recorded that the longest-lived ball python lived to be 48 years old. The female ball python lays 4 to 10 eggs at a time and will coil until it hatches. During the three-month incubation period, there is no departure and no eating.

Legal basis

Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 341: [Crime of Illegally Hunting or Killing Rare or Endangered Wild Animals] [Crime of Illegally Purchasing, Transporting, and Killing Precious or Endangered Wild Animals and Products of Precious or Endangered Wild Animals] Whoever illegally hunts or kills rare or endangered wildlife under key national protection, or illegally purchases, transports, or kills rare or endangered wildlife under key national protection and the products thereof, is sentenced to up to five years imprisonment or short-term detention and shall also be fined; where the circumstances are serious, a sentence of between 5 and 10 years imprisonment and a concurrent fine is to be given; where the circumstances are especially serious, a sentence of 10 or more years imprisonment and a concurrent fine or confiscation of property is to be given.

Illegal hunting] Whoever violates hunting laws and regulations by hunting in a hunting ban area, during a hunting ban period, or by using prohibited tools or methods, destroying wildlife resources, and the circumstances are serious, is to be sentenced to up to three years imprisonment, short-term detention, controlled release, or a fine.

Where regulations on the protection and management of wildlife are violated by illegally hunting, purchasing, transporting, or naturally growing and breeding terrestrial wildlife in the wild other than those provided for in the first paragraph of ** for the purpose of consumption, and the circumstances are serious, punishment is to be given in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

The ball python is a national protected animal and cannot be kept by individuals. Raising ball pythons is an illegal act, which does not constitute a crime and will not be sentenced.

Legal basis: Article 341 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China.

Anyone who illegally hunts or kills rare or endangered wildlife under key national protection, or illegally purchases, transports, or illegally purchases rare or endangered wildlife under key national protection and the products thereof, is sentenced to up to five years imprisonment or short-term detention and a concurrent fine; where the circumstances are serious, a sentence of between 5 and 10 years imprisonment and a concurrent fine is to be given; where the circumstances are especially serious, a sentence of 10 or more years imprisonment and a concurrent fine or confiscation of property is to be given. Whoever violates hunting laws and regulations by hunting in prohibited areas, during prohibited hunting periods, or by using prohibited tools or methods, destroying wildlife resources, and the circumstances are serious, is to be sentenced to up to three years imprisonment, short-term detention, controlled release, or a fine.

Legal analysisIt is illegal to raise ball pythons, because ball pythons belong to the national second-class key protected animals. Illegal purchase of rare and endangered wildlife and their products under national key protection for food or other purposes is an act of illegal acquisition of rare or endangered wildlife under national key protection and the products thereof. At present, most of the ** pythons, ball pythons and other oysters on the market belong to artificial breeding, not wild animals, and the ball python is an alien species, and it has not been included in the national protection list.

However, as a precious, endangered and rare animal in the world, it is managed and protected with reference to the national second-class key protected wild animals.

Legal basisCriminal Law of the People's Republic of China" Article 341 Whoever illegally hunts or kills rare or endangered wild animals under key national protection, or illegally purchases, transports, or transports rare or endangered wild animals under key national protection and the products thereof, is sentenced to up to five years imprisonment or short-term detention and a concurrent fine; where the circumstances are serious, a sentence of between 5 and 10 years imprisonment and a concurrent fine is to be given; where the circumstances are especially serious, a sentence of 10 or more years imprisonment and a concurrent fine or confiscation of property is to be given. Whoever violates hunting laws and regulations by engaging in closed hunting in prohibited areas, during prohibited hunting periods, or by using prohibited tools or methods, destroying wildlife resources, and the circumstances are serious, is to be sentenced to up to three years imprisonment, short-term detention, controlled release, or a fine. Violation of regulations on vertical ridge fissures of wildlife protection pipes, illegal hunting, purchasing, transportation, and ** for the purpose of eating.