So we all know that casting awaken on an animal companion makes it no longer a companion, but a cohort.
What are the ramifications of just giving it more INT though? Like through a +6 INT headband?
Animals can't have an intelligence over 2.
Sure they can. Druids and other Animal Companion classes have been bumping Int up to 3 for years to get access to greater feat variety. Giving a Gorilla a greatsword is surprisingly effective.
Just because they have been doing it doesn't make it right.
Traits: An animal possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature's entry).
Intelligence score of 1 or 2 (no creature with an Intelligence score of 3 or higher can be an animal).
Though there are passages that contradict that, so at best it is a GM discretion thing.
There was a blog written about this a few years ago. If you do a search for "monkey see monkey do", you should be able to find it.
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From the animal companion section:
Animal companions with an Intelligence of 3 or higher can select any feat they are physically capable of using.
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The weird thing is that even if you have your smart animal take a point in linguistics to gain your language, you still need to use handle animal to get it to do things in combat. It's still an animal no matter how intelligent it is.