Answer:
Your question: Unlike other animals, like dogs, the felines have always been able to do what humans have primarily wanted them to do, at least at first: prey upon small rodents. Humans spent relatively little time domesticating cats for one key reason: "Unlike other animals, like dogs, the felines have always been able to do what humans have primarily wanted [them] to do … prey upon small rodents."
Explanation:
This is in fact correct, the quite makes the most sense ordered in "Unlike other animals, like dogs, the felines have always been able to do what humans have primarily wanted [them] to do … prey upon small rodents."
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