Had an odd situation come up in my last game. The oracle summoned an eagle while the party was fighting an enemy druid. The druid had speak with animals already cast, and had prepared charm animal, but had no targets for it until the eagle showed up. Stealing the summon sounded fun so I just went with it. Didn't do much harm and successfully ticked off the party.
After the session, I did some rule checking. I now see that the oracle could have simply dismissed the summon as a standard action, but what if she decided not to? The eagle is now friendly to both the summoning oracle and the enemy druid. The druid can actually speak to the eagle, but its link is with the oracle, who can't give it orders. The druid's animal companion is dead, so there are no other targets for the eagle. The druid won a Charisma check against the eagle to have it attack one of the other PCs, but should it have been against the oracle instead? Are summoned eagles even vulnerable to charm animal in the first place? Can the oracle get the eagle to do anything if she can't speak to it? What happens if the oracle forgets she can dismiss the eagle and attacks it instead?
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IIRC, the summoned creature will attack the caster's enemy unless given a specific order.
Here, the caster's enemy suddenly becomes the eagle's friend. However, it still is the caster's enemy.
I would rule that the eagle would do his best to fight his "friend" without killing him (for example by doing nonlethal damage with its attacks). And likely would try to convince his "friend" to stop fighting the caster.