The animal companions gets a feat. My druid wants his monkey to get Deflect Arrows but the requirements is Improved Unarmed Strikes in the case on animals, does their natural attacks count as unarmed strikes? 3.5 rules, obviously.
Hmmm.....I'd say yes because they're "proficienct" enougth with Unarmed strikes that they'd deal lethal damage with them. So I don't see a problem in that regards.