Cinder, Ruckus & Grizelda: Berzerkers, Inc.

20/05/2026

Our beautiful Cinder the Berzerker crossed the Rainbow Bridge two years ago yesterday. We miss her so much.

No longer by our sides, but forever the Queen Berzerker!
🐺🩷🐾👑

04/05/2026

"Hi everyone! T'is I, Grrrrrrrrizelda! How you all doing? I'm good. I'm great, actually. Today is my birthday. I'm 8 years old today. Every year my mom makes puppy ice cream, or pupcakes, to celebrate. I used to share my birthday celebration with Cinder. Her birthday was May 1, and mine is May 3, and we shared the desserts. But this year, it was all mine. (We said 'Happy Birthday, Cinder' anyway.) So, anyway, yeah - they're yum! I also got roast beef and green beans with my dinner, too. Yup... had a good birthday.

Well, I better go. I know there are more pupcakes around here somewhere. Gonna see if I can score one.
Ok, I love you bye!" 💜🐺🐾

27/03/2026

"Hey friends! It's me, Grrrrrrrrizelda! Ha!
Do any of you like to make pictures on your phones and computers? I don't know what it's called. But sometimes they're really colorful. My mom made me into a cartoon, a couple times. One she said looks like crayons... aren't crayons those colored sticks you scrape on paper? It looks like me, not like those sticks. Then the other one is really bright. She said it looked like her trapper keeper when she was a kid. Were those brightly colored dogs? What did they trap? Did they always keep it? Did they trap and keep things to eat it? I don't understand her. Seriously. But she feeds me, so I guess I'll stick with her, ha! Ok, loveyoubye!"
🐺💜🐾💕

15/03/2026

"Well, hellllllloooooo friends!
I know it's been a long time. It's not been the same around here without Cinder and Ruckus. Cinder started this page, Ruckus was the handsome-yet-silly constant presence, and the hoomans and I miss them. I bet we're not the only ones.
But, after much thought and deliberation as I chewed on my ball, I decided that doesn't mean that people should be deprived of my presence! Hehe! Just playing. Seriously, tho, Mom and I are going to try to be around more often. Because the Berzerker lineage doesn't end with Grizelda! I'm not saying anything for sure... I'm just sayin'.
Hehe - loveyoubye!!!"
🐾💕🐺💜

01/11/2025

01/11/2025

Hi everyone. This post has been a long time coming...

On Super Bowl Sunday 2014, "Berzerker Dad" and I skipped the game and went to meet a litter of puppies at a foster home - we were looking to adopt a new furry family member.
A fuzzy yellow boy with amber eyes was happy to be picked up and cuddled. He gazed deeply into my eyes and, well… what can I say? I’ve always been a sucker for a cute boy with pretty eyes. Then he kissed my nose, I melted, and two days later, we brought the boy home.
After three nights of his howling at all hours at a decibel level neither of us knew was possible for a 14-pound bundle of fuzz and intestinal worms (we’re talking jet engine levels here!), he named himself.
Ruckus the Berzerker became the funny, sweet co-hooligan to Cinder almost instantly. Always affectionate, never mean-spirited, and forever mooching for snacks, he filled our house with love - and golden floaty tufts of hair that went everywhere: under furniture, inside socks, behind contact lenses… you name it, we’ve found Ruckus hair in it.
When we got Grizelda, after their initial meeting - when he bit her head and she shook it off and launched herself back at him as if to say, “Oh, it’s ON, you yellow weirdo!!” - they were besties and partners in crime. Ruckus never outgrew the fiery spunkiness that made up the core of his relationship with Z, right up till the end.
He moved with us overseas and cross-country - afraid of every cardboard box and baby gate, but braving it all to be with us. Always smiling and always squeaking… because even though he weighed nearly 100 pounds, a good 70 of that was squeak. Seriously.
He had been ill for a while, and we sensed we’d soon have to make the decision to say goodbye. He was such a good boy, though - on July 25th, he fell asleep in front of his favorite box fan and went his own way.
Today would have been his birthday - our Halloween boy, forever wrapped in magic and mischief. 🎃🐾
We’ll always miss his squeak, his absurd sense of humor, his sweet face… and I’ll always miss the nose kisses.
Thanks for being our Goodest Boy, Ruckus. 💛

19/05/2025

Hi everyone! Berzerker Mom here. One year ago today we said goodbye to our beautiful Cinder the Berzerker. Ruckus and Zelda are relaxing today, enjoying some sunshine, and later will have a yummy dinner with chicken, rice, pumpkin, and puppy ice cream for dessert, in honor of their big sister. We miss her - those who have fur babies they've lost get it... they're gone, and we go on, but they never leave us. We still feel her around, truly!
🐺🩷🐾💕🦔✨

12/04/2025

Hi everyone! "Berzerker Mom" here! I'm sorry we've been away so much - life has gotten hectic, I'm afraid! But Zelda and I are working today (well, I'm working - she's supervising... through her eyelids, lounging on my rug!).
Anyway, thought we'd jump on this collector's toy package image trend that's going around! I mean, what's cuter than toy pups?? 🐾💕🥰
We included the "Queen B" Cinder in it, too, because she belongs in it! Hope you like it! 🩷🪽💜🧡🐾💕

01/02/2025

Hi everyone! Things are quiet and boring on the Berzerker front. But, figured we'd throw out a Blast From The Past, from this day in 2016 - Ruckus in his "Dr. Huxtable" sweater! 😂🐾❤ We lived in Hawaii at the time, and the weather was warm and balmy, but Ruckus was happy as a clam, and feeling handsome!

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas from Cinder, Ruckus & Grizelda: Berzerkers, Inc., and their humans!
🎄☃️💚❤🎅🌟🐾💕🐺💜🐶💙

31/10/2024

Happy 11th birthday to our beloved Ruckus! He's a handsome and distinguished older gentleman, and so loved!
🐶🐾💕🥳🎂🦴