Type: General
Source: Web
You have a special bond with a wild animal, and it is willing to travel and adventure with you.
Benefit: You gain an animal cohort. The animal cohort is generally friendly to you and is willing to follow you and adventure with you. If given proper training, the animal cohort will willingly serve as your mount, guardian, and companion. (see the description of the Handle Animal skill for more details on training animals.)
You can use the Handle Animal skill on your animal cohort as a move action rather than as a standard action, and you gain a +2 bonus on all Handle Animal checks made to direct or influence your animal cohort.
Provided the DM gives her approval, at 1st level you can choose from a badger, camel, dire rat, dog, riding dog, eagle, hawk, horse (light or heavy), owl, pony, snake (Small or Medium viper), or wolf. Like a druid, you can choose more powerful animals as you increase in level. These alternative animal cohorts work like the alternative animal companions available to a druid, but they are available as cohorts later than they are available as animal companions.
When selecting an alternative animal cohort, use the list of alternative animal companions, but treat yourself as a druid three levels lower than your character level. For example, once you reach 7th level, you can choose an animal cohort off the list of animal companions available to a 4th-level druid.
Special: Druids and rangers who take the wild cohort feat gain an animal cohort in addition to their animal companion. Although the two abilities are similar, they follow different sets of rules and must be tracked separately. You can only ever have one wild cohort at any given time.
Like a druid's animal companion, your wild cohort improves as you gain experience. Although the animal cohort improves significantly compared to others of its kind, its abilities do not rival those of a druid's animal companion.
| Character Level | Bonus HD | Natural Armor Adj. | Str/Dex Bonus | Bonus Tricks | Special |
| 1st-2nd | +0 | +0 | +0 | 0 | |
| 3rd-5th | +1 | +1 | +0 | 1 | Evasion |
| 6th-8th | +3 | +3 | +1 | 2 | |
| 9th-11th | +5 | +5 | +2 | 3 | |
| 12th-14th | +7 | +7 | +3 | 4 | Devotion |
| 15th-17th | +9 | +9 | +4 | 5 | |
| 18th-20th | +11 | +11 | +5 | 6 | Improved evasion |