You can judge a man…

There is an old age adage which says that you can judge a man by the friends he keeps. Whilst I do believe in that, even if the waters are muddied by social and professional networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ (you see I am cool with the kids) etc, I also believe that you can judge someone by the reaction of either animals or small children to them. Another bizarre theory I know, but I believe that if animals (prey rather than predators such as crocodiles and piranhas you understand), and small children, are prepared to trust someone, then that’s a pretty good sign. This sounds like the start of an argument to convince someone at work to buy me a horse for the office, (definitely more preferable than having more small children given my current multiple offspring situation).