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- Muscle tremors
- Twitching
- Loss of control of bodily movements (ataxia)
- Intermittent muscle spasms (tetany)
- Loss of appetite
- Behavioral changes
- Listlessness
- Weakness
- Panting
- Fever
- Convulsions
- Seizures
- Rhabdomyolysis (destruction of muscle tissue leading to the release of muscle fiber contents in the blood)
- Ethylene glycol intoxication (antifreeze for example)
- Decrease in mobilization of calcium in the bones
- Hypoalbuminemia
- Puerperal tetany (dangerously low calcium levels in nursing dogs, small breeds are prone though all can be affected)
- Gastrointestinal malabsorption of calcium
- Loss of calcium in the urine
- Kidney disease (chronic renal failure is the most frequently seen cause of low blood calcium in dogs)
- Pancreatitis
- Trauma to soft tissue
- Phosphate enema hyperphosphatemia)
- Tumor lysis syndrome
- Surgical removal of parathyroid gland because of overactivity or disease
- Failure of the parathyroid gland to regulate calcium
- Has an underlying disease been found, and if so what is the prognosis
- How fast did this event of hypocalcemia develop
- What are the severity of signs in the dog
- What are the calcium level readings
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