RE: Order of Training-commands/ecollar
I have to agree witht he majority that the basic obediance and basic commands come first, they have to undersand what you want them to do.
However there are a few things I would like to add. First Have the collar on the dog when you work with them and correct them with out it. Just have them wear it that way they don't associate the fact that you can only zap them when they are wearing it. Some dogs get wise to it. Also tri tronic collars produce a tone when they shock, and can have just the tone with no shock. Try treaching your dog the commands, get to the point where they are 90% there and start using the tone when you correct them, them praise when they do it right. They can start to associate the noise early on with doing something wrong. After they know what they are doing you can use a low shock and it produces the tone so they know what can happen but for the most part you won't have to shock them at all.
Hopefully that makes sence.
Good luck.
Corinne