Does Improved Familiar allow me to have more than 1 familiar?

[Yargoyle AKA Endarire]

Greetings, all!

Does the Improved Familiar feat allow me to have more than 1 familiar 'on deck,' like a Rat (standard familiar) and a Ratling (improved familiar)? What about active at the same time?

[QuidEst]

No.

Sorry for the short answer, but there's nothing to indicate that it would. If there is and I missed it... no, the improved familiar is still a familiar and in place of the regular one.

[Ms. Pleiades]

Nope.