i have a player that is a druid and want to cast awaken on her animal companion. the spell says that an awaken animal can not be an animal companion, if she does will the animal lose what it as gained as a companion or will it keep the stats?
The Animal Companion status provides the extra abilities, so losing animal companion status, by rule, removes the extra abilities.
This is sort of problematic from a game verisimilitude perspective though, so your GM may view it differently.
(However, if your GM rules that the extra abilities remain, and your druid starts summoning, awakening and releasing animal companions to create an army of ex-ACs, .... I'd expect a revision of that ruling.)
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I don't see a problem with it. You are casting a spell that changes the very nature of the creature. It goes through a transformation and becomes awakened, loosing the abilities it once had for new ones.
But by the rules, once awakened the critter can not be a companion. Incidentally, I think it would be cool to see a druid running around with a few awakened buddies that were once companions. Heck, take leadership and have them all be awakened :)
Krome, our group requires leadership for awakened ACs to follow the druid. They then follow the cohort and follower rules.