We tried it.

For three days, Butternut got coffee. Decaf. About two ounces each day.

Butternut likes his coffee black and hot. Surprisingly hot. He carefully picked up his mug with “both hands,” as he liked to point out. Then, he took big, noisy slurps and gulps, and happily declared, “coffee me, coffee me!”

He seemed fine at home. I enjoyed several mornings of not needing to worry whether he was climbing the stool to get to the coffee beans or digging into the compost bin in the kitchen to eat coffee grounds (big yuck!) or grabbing my mug when I left it unattended.

Sadly, his daycare workers reported that he was aggressive. He took 30-minute naps in place of his usual 2-hour naps. We decided no more coffee, man.