Why am I not allowed to train my animal companion?

[claudekennilol]

If my pet dies, and I get a new one, it'll come with virtually no tricks (just the bonus tricks from the animal companion chart). Or what if I take a feat like Monstrous Mount and get a new companion, I'm basically stuck with a companion with very few tricks.

I realize I can teach one trick per session, but that doesn't seem to be enough.

[AxeMurder0]

You can teach 1 trick per session, per rank in handle animal... Source

[Jeff Merola]

The only thing you can't do is come up with new tricks. You can definitely train up your new animal, though.

[claudekennilol]

I said that. I also said 1 isn't enough.

For example, if I got a worg companion with 6 int, that's at least 18 sessions before his full potential can be realized. If I'm doing something like running through the emerald spire, he'd never learn as much as he could.

[BigNorseWolf]

Its per rank in handle animal. Which means a level 5 character should have him up and running in 2-3 sessions.

[claudekennilol]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Its per rank in handle animal. Which means a level 5 character should have him up and running in 2-3 sessions.

Ah, that clears it up. I didn't read carefully enough and thought it was only once per session. I didn't realize it was once per rank in Handle Animal.

[Flutter]

Take a union card

[claudekennilol]

Are bonus tricks learned automatically? And it's only the tricks per intelligence point that need to be taught?

[BretI]

Yes and yes.