I dealt with the samething this morning. I just got a new bp that was in shed when it arrived. She got part of it off with but her head & 1/4 of her body was still left. I let her soak in a tub of water for about 20min, then I put her back in her tub & added some moist paper towels to her hide. She went right in & about an hour later I came back & she had got the skin off her head with no problem.