Specifically... no, I never do a thing in SF. My char lives around the area, would never do a thing to jeopardize it. As mentioned, it was a tamed cow I got from an enc, only that. I solved it easily just by buying one from the pen, which I had used previously. The only reason I had to kill the bought one is because when remaking my tent to Ranger hut, I put all the hides on the cow... which was a huge mistake, all the hides went into his 'default drop on death' one, and I had to kill it to get them all back. Tamed one afterward and guards apparently thought it was a terrorist moomoo in the mine.
However, your comment about their reaction-stance may have had something to do with it, same thing with the slaves, I will have to test that out I suppose.
-And I have had no problem selling slaves in the Den. They(SoT, not militia) kill the slaves before I even get to Metzger, not ran into any bugs of militia at present other than their inability to miss it seems. Among bullshit stats, they seem to have a jacked hit %. Thankfully, I worked for my wealth and got a shiny Scout to show for it. Awesome car, really. Trunk that can fit an armed brahmin, fuel-economy out the ass, etc.