We had gotten a hermit crab Friday. It is for my four year old. Today we were up in my bedroom and I was bagging up old clothes. Her and the hermit crab were sitting on the bed playing. After about the fourth, He doesn't even pinch me when he's falling, the light went on. I said, Are you deliberately letting him fall? She said, Yes. I explained to her that the reason why he dind't pinch was because he felt safe with her. If she kept letting him drop, he wouldn't feel safe and he might pinch her. She put him away then. A couple of hours later, she picked him up and the first thing he did was pinched her. Well, she started flinging her hand and he flew one way and his shell flew the other. Boy do they look ugly when there's no shell on them. I got him back in his shell as soon as I could but he never fully went back in his shell. The top half of his body is out. Has this ever happened to anyone? Could he be moulting, reattaching himself to his shell or dead? His body is still the same color it was.