Cleric Animal Companion?

[Theroc]

Just wondering as I saw someone in an earlier thread mention getting an animal companion as a druid through a Domain Ability. I suspect it might have been a Pathfinder only thing, but I was interested enough to ask if anyone knew of a 3.5 Legal way to do this?

[Namfuak]

Wild Cohort is going to be your best bet 9/10.

If you don't mind being a gish, a swift hunter build using scout, cleric, and prestige ranger gets half casting and an animal companion equal to the prestige ranger class level. You can take between 1 and 3 levels of cleric before prestiging, depending on what you want to do.

I suppose you could do some unholy combination of druid or ranger with cleric and wizard and arcane heirophant, but you would be stuck with low caster levels all around.

[Theroc]

So, there's no domain ability to do it. Must have been PF only. ~goes to take a peek at PF's Domains.~

Thanks for the reply. I was asking as I intend to build a beefy cleric. It actually ties into My Gestalt campaign advice questions (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245970) but that didn't seem to be getting responses anymore, so I asked this question separately.

Basic build idea now is: [Base Race undecided] Half-Minotaur Evolutionist|Cleric X/Sorc X/Geomancer advancing Divine Casting(Since Arcane stuff is already hella pumped, and using Spell Versatility to key all the casting stuff on Charisma to go with Turning/Rebuking.

Anyhow, thanks for the response on the Animal companion bit.

[stack]

In pathfinder, animal domain gets an AC at cleric level -3. Natural oracles can get them as well, as can sorcerers with the right bloodline.