Hi! First Let me introduce my beautiful Tripawd, Leia. She is a husky mix about a year and half old, and we adopted her from our local humane society about 2 months after she had her leg amputated. She was brought into the shelter after she was found with shotgun shrapnel in her left leg, she was left too long with it in her leg, so it couldnt be saved. She is such a wonderful dog, and I love her to bits. 

Now, normally she is generally well behaved, she never barks (ever), she is over the top friendly and will lick you to death before biting you. She is still a puppy, so I do sometimes come home to finding that she has chewed some things up but that's ok she makes up for it in cuteness! 

My problem however, is that sometimes (not all the time) when we are outside, whether it be on a leash or in our fenced in back yard not on a leash, she sometimes out of nowhere gets uncontrollably hyper. She will rip around the back yard at top speed and when i try to calm her, she lashes out and jumps all over me and even has nipped at me a couple of times. Obviously, this is unacceptable. I fear for her safety, mine, family and strangers. It's like in these moments she becomes a completely different dog, and nothing I do can calm her down, i usually just have to let her go crazy until she tires herself out. I was wondering if it is possible that she has some form of PTSD from being shot. I should also add that we believe she was abused in her previous home, because we cannot put her in a kennel without her freaking out. The Humane Society never mentioned an behavioural issues to us when we adopted her.

Any help would be much appreciated. She is my baby, and I just want the best for her 🙂

Thanks in advance.

P.s I should also add that we live in a small town, so we dont have any animal behaviourists available to us here.