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I am asking the following specifically for Society play, but I was told this may be a strait rules question.
1) Can Animal Companions/Mounts take the Additional Traits Feat? (assuming an animal has 3+ Int: Paladin mount, increase attribute to Int, etc.)
2) If they can, are there any limitations to which ones they can take?
Example we are currently discussing:
Bodyguard Animal Companion/Mount takes additional traits feat, then takes the Adopted, then the Halfling "Helpful" trait.
The end result potentially is a "helpful" bodyguard animal companion/mount, that can bodyguard for +4 AC?
Is this legal or not legal? If it is, can someone site the sources for me?
Thanks in Advance!

VRMH |

1) Can Animal Companions/Mounts take the Additional Traits Feat?
Sure, why not? Most of the traits themselves wouldn't make much sense though.
2) If they can, are there any limitations to which ones they can take?
The worst limitation of all: the dreaded Common Sense.
(And of course no race traits. Religious traits or cultural ones might be a hard sell too.)Bodyguard Animal Companion/Mount takes additional traits feat, then takes the Adopted, then the Halfling "Helpful" trait.
Adopted: "You were adopted and raised by someone not of your actual race, and raised in a society not your own."
No offence, but... that's not only not legal, it's pretty daft. Your horse was adopted by a Halfling family, and raised as one of their own? And all this happened before it had an unanimalistic intelligence? It got sent to a Halfling school, ate Halfling meals and played Halfling games with the other Halfling kids?