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Hmmn. You're right.
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/magicItems.html#magic-items-on-the-body

So looks like if I just want to do this for comedic effect, I could have him just hold it in his claws, but with no mechanical bonus. OR If I was really into it, I could have him take Extra Item Slot(Shield) to have him wield one. Hehehe.

Good Point, I'll look into the Animal Archive

The following table presents all of the animal companions and familiars available to characters, divided into general categories that

loosely define their body type as well as which magic item slots are available to them. Available slots followed by either “(saddle)” or
“(horseshoes)” denote that creatures of that body type can only wear magic items in the appropriate slots as long as they are either saddles or
horseshoes, respectively (for instance, a hoofed quadruped can wear a saddle of the sky-river, but not a belt of dwarvenkind).
Creature body types marked with an asterisk (*) are able to grasp and carry one object at a time in their paws, claws, or hands, including
weapons, rods, wands, and staves, though they may not be able to use such items effectively (GM’s discretion) and take penalties for
nonproficiency as usual.

Table Entry:

Biped
(claws/paws)*
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Armor, belt, chest, eyes,
headband, neck, ring,
shoulders, wrist
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Dinosaur (allosaurusB2, deinonychus, iguanodonB3,
pachycephalosaurusB3, parasaurolophusB2, spinosaurusB3,
tyrannosaurusB1, velociraptor), kangarooB3

T-rex can wear Armor, and can hold items in their hands. It looks like to effectively use them would be up to the GM though. Seems like this is mainly for Magical item slots, though.

Yes I understand it's ridiculous. But is there anything anywhere saying an animal companion cannot use a shield?

Other than I find it hilariously stupid to have my T-Rex companion with his little fore-arms wielding a shield defensively like its going to do something, is there any rules reason I could not have my T-Rex benefit from wielding a Darkwood Shield?

A Cestus is very useful to range characters or reach characters such as yourself.

It is always armed, you can use your longspear at no penalty while it is on, and if someone gets in your face you can opt to punch them if you need to. It also has a nice 19-20 crit range and B/P damage types

There are no "long" or "tall" stipulations, but the roots are there. So vertical creatures still have more reach than flatter ones. (But flatter ones usually have better speed and resist trip better.)

The Bestiaries' Large bipeds have reach.
The quadrupeds don't until Huge, when bipeds move to 15' reach.
Exceptions exist, such as for many of the tentacled beasts, or the small Mandragora, but it's consistent.
True Dragons, with their bites, are one of the few non-stretchy quadrupeds with reach equal to a biped. Or better, when Tiny.

Coming at it from a different direction, the Large Apes in the Bestiary have reach, so when your Ape AC is Large, it does too, as reach is not a SA, SQ, etc., just a function of size.
Comparable to when somebody takes a Large Cat AC. If it's a Lion, it has fewer chances to grab then if you chose Tiger (because the CRB doesn't stipulate which attacks get grab, and the Bestiary does, giving more to the Tiger.)

Okey-dokey?

Cheers, JMK

So it would be safe to assume that since the Tyrannosaurus is bi-pedal, and its bestiary entry has reach, that the Large version would have reach? Awesome, I get to stick to my Dino buddy :)

Here you go.

Thanks. But now how do we determine if a Animal Companion would be Large(Long) or Large(Tall). Is there a resource that specifies that?

Hey All,

So I was looking for animal companions to use with my animal domain, and I saw the glorious Tyrannosaurus Rex. I wanted to use him, but then I saw this post declaring that the Large Ape has reach. On the Animal Companion listings for Large Ape, there is no indication that the large ape has reach. So am I missing something where there is a solid way to determine that an animal companion has reach?

Thanks in advance for the input :)