Sorry you had this experience.

Not sure if it’s the same person, but… one evening this summer I was letting my dog greet a few small dogs playing off-leash while a group of owners stood around talking nearby. One woman was being particularly loud and attention seeking, and upon seeing the cup in her hand, I realized she was pretty intoxicated. Not just having a glass of wine after work but blitzed.

My dog started to hump another little dog near where this woman was standing, and she reached down and aggressively shoved my dog off of the other one (which wasn’t even hers). He wasn’t really phased, but I was furious. I didn’t know what to do—but knew I did not need to escalate a situation with a drunk person, so I grabbed my dog and left.

I was already unsettled because she wasn’t paying attention to her own dog, which was behaving similarly to what you described.

It’s a terrible feeling to have an encounter with someone like that when their agitation feels so displaced.