Thoughtful comment.
The agrarian progression would need the cat to keep the harvest under control, as well as the spread of disease. However, the steps leading to this level depended upon the dog, and the agrarian level also depended upon the dog for herding cattle, sheep as well as alerting the farmers to dangers threatening the herds or homestead.
Cats aren’t very good at guard duty, and are less than useless in herding animals.
Your post contained several unnecessary words.
Here, let me fix it for you:
Cats aren’t very good at guard duty, and are less than useless.