PURPOSE: To provide a skinner unnecessitating a washing work for each treatment of an animal body, capable of continuously processing the bodies, and enabling to improve the yield.

CONSTITUTION: This skinner is provided with a catching means capable of being vertically moved along the surface of the hung animal body and used for catching the lower or upper end skin of the animal body, and with a pusher guide 8 capable of being moved in the same direction in interlock with the upward or downward movement of the catching means. The pusher guide is provided with a rest disposed at a later position than the movement of the catching means and striking the surface of the animal body at a place near to an animal skin-catching position with the catching means. Thus, the animal skin just before peeled off is pressed to the side of the meat with the rest, and subsequently peeled off.