The Stroh sextic formalism, together with Fourier analysis and the singular integral equation technique, is used to study the propagation of a possible slip pulse in the presence of local separation at the interface between two contact anisotropic solids. The existence of such a pulse is discussed in detail. It is found that the pulse may exist if at least one medium admits Rayleigh wave below the minimum limiting speed of the two media. The pulse-propagating speed is not fixed; it can be of any value in some regions between the lower Rayleigh wave speed and minimum limiting speed. These speed regions depend on the existence of the first and second slip-wave solutions without interfacial separation studied by Barnett, Gavazza and Lothe (Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 1988, A415, 389-419). The pulse has no free amplitude directly but involves the arbitrary size of the separation zone that depends on the intensity of the motion. The interface normal traction and the particle velocities involve a square-root singularity at both ends of the separation zones that act as energy source and sink.