Can you retrain an animal companion's feats?

[burkoJames]

As the title says. I want to retrain feats with an animal companion picked up before I increased its int to 3. This would allow me to better utilize the few feats I have with the animal companion.

[Nefreet]

If this is for a home game, ask your GM. I'd probably just have you spend the money and time that a PC requires.

If this is for PFS, you have to get a new Animal Companion, as Animal Companions don't have the Prestige required for retraining.

[burkoJames]

This is for PFS. If I am reading this right:

ACG pg. 27 wrote:

If a hunter releases her companion from service or her animal companion perishes, she may gain a new one by performing a ceremony requiring 24 uninterrupted hours of prayer in the environment where the new companion typically lives.

It means that at the end of any scenario I can dismiss my animal companion and get a new one. Is this right? Also, if i have a chronicle boon that reads as this:

Quest for Perfection part 3 Chronicle:

As long as you have Chronicle sheets for all three parts of the Quest for Perfection campaign arc, you may take an axe beak as a loyal mount or companion; the Chronicle sheets need not be consecutive or in order, but all three must be present in the same character’s records. If you possess a class feature which permits you to take an animal companion or a mount that progresses as an animal companion, you may add the axe beak to your list of legal and available companions. You must present a copy of Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 in order to use an axe beak companion as if it were allowed as an additional resource. Other than provide access to this animal as a choice of mount or companion, this boon provides no mechanical benefit.

And I fulfill the requirements, I can keep choosing the axe beak every time, this boon isn't one and done, correct?

[burkoJames]

Also, would just getting a new companion work? wouldnt i have to build the companion 'from the ground up' selecting the level 1 and 2 feats before the int is raised at level 4?

[Nefreet]

Yes, you add [REDACTED] to your list of legal and available companions, so if it dies, you just grab a new one.

And you would indeed have to build it from the ground up, just like any other new Companion.

This has often been lamented over in the PFS forums. I'm sure there are some threads to be found if you do a quick search over there.