Energy Conservation Run Amok

The older female has been viewing the electricity bill with increasing angst and dismay over the last few months. She has responded by initiating a campaign to "turn down the heat", of which everyone else in the house disapproves, although we have reservations about saying so. She enhances this feeling by appealing to our "global warming" guilt, and ridiculing our hardiness--"Put on a SWEATER!". That's OK for the humans--but WE can't but on a sweater, only puff up, and sit, miserable, on the perch. She likes the cold--she has the fat layer of a pre-migratory goose, is post-menopausal, and has a nice array of fashionable sweaters. The rest of us aren't in the same situation, and the older male even sneaks the thermostat up a few degrees when she's not looking. Our ancestors came from the semi-desert regions--keeping the house at 65 degrees is uncomfortable! This regimen will only increase our seed consumption, and, as a result, our poop rate. So she'll just have to clean the cage more often! Hummphh!
Geoffrey