Character class for Awakened Animals.

[Conaill]

So that means that awakened animals lose all of their points in various skills? Somehow I would think that 'training' would still apply to some degree.

That's kinda a separate issue. The animal and magical beast types actually have the same number of skill points. You could argue that they should lose all their animal skills and gain the same number of new skills, but that's perhaps a little farfetched. At least, that part is unspecified (as opposed to the explicit "Proficient with no armor" entry under magical beast).

This is another good reason to actually write it out as a template. At least now, you can use the fallback position that "An awakened animal has all the base creature's statistics and special abilities except as noted here."

PS: Yes, I do think the awakened warhorse should keep it's armor proficiency. And I've stated so in my awakened animal template. But it does go against the strictest interpretation of the rules.