Maybe I missed something when I read through the handle animal and animal companion rules, but I could swear that once you taught an animal a trick, you didn't need to use handle animal to get it to perform that trick. If you did need to perform check for your animal companion to perform a trick, what would be the point of having trained it?
I was always under the impression that I could point at someone, say attack, and my trained animal would leap into action.
Nowhere in the handle animal skill does it say you need to perform a check to make them perform a trick, after you teach them it.
