One, I might do more based on personal interest. If I were to ever cover Pokemorphs or Digimorphs, Pokemon and Digimon Anthropomorphs respecitively, I would need to take a great deal of time to study the issue beyond simply observation, as my understanding of real world animals is far more complete than the fictitious species of Digimon and Pokemon, who themselves have a massive amount of "baggage" derived from elements of Japanese culture or Japanese-leaning understanding of other cultures. Not that I wouldn't, who wouldn't mind getting to the root of Lucario ("Furry Ryu") love? A Pokemon/Pokemorph you could never really huge because of that massive spike protruding from their chests than could likely skewer the other person.. even with copious breasts to intercede. And Renamon who basically do not need morphing, and frankly looks a bit off if she is... anyway.

This has been going on for a good decade, at least. Mice have been a perennial Furry/Anthropomorph species since Speedy Gonzalez, Jerry (of "Tom and Jerry"), "Steward Little", Mrs. Brisby, and so on. They are the cute little fur, mostly to completely harmless, and more noticed for their absence where they should be present than their actual presence. At least in mainstream anthro depictions. Mice, in Furry/Anthro circles, are much more common and often played up, although they are frequently not an artist's or writer's main character, fursona, or Alternate form. Still they are there but seem remarkably unremarkable. Just cute incarnate, like Rabbits, but not as popular. Just always there, Perennial.

But the order Rodentia has seen a notable uptick in at least one sub group, or species. Rats.

Often depicted as villains, conniving, scum. and worse, rats had little representation aside from whether a character needed a villain or ne'er-do-well to bounce off of. These started to change after Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT), which can only be counted as building on the positive by still limited notoriety of "Rats in The Secret of NIMH (Nation Institutes of Mental Health)" and a scant few others. Master Splinter, the wise old rat who always did his best to raise four young turtles, to survive in a world that would not accept them, fight evil, and avenge Splinters master/owner.

This was built on by others, like Minerva Mink was a general catalyst for the current Furry drive, Freya from "Final Fantasy 9" only built further on this. Even though going in not knowing ANYTHING about the her character, it was hard to mistake the appearance of a "Madam Knight", one might readily mistake her for a small dragon humanoid. I have to say this, when Final Fantasy actually puts forward a good depiction of anthro, they do not pull any punches to do so.

But the real push for Rats has to come from "Warhammer Fantasy", and its wider awareness, owing in no small part to "Warhammer 40,000", and the Skaven. Effectively accepting the "Evil furry" role, and "Bad Girls Need Love, Too", rats have made noticeable inroads to the wider furry/anthro community. Still maybe as cute as mice, but often depicted as overtly sexier, larger, innately stronger (Super muscle mice buck this), more capable beings than mice. This tends to realign mice to being smaller more child-like, or "short stack". Male rats still get the short shrift and are largely villains or seen as such by others, Despite good examples of the them being good or heroic (see Master Splinter and Justin). But that will change with exposure and the creation and development of applicable characters.

I personally do not have many rat characters, and I go nuts on characters from time to time. But I feel that Rats, unlike mice, tend to do fine in the presence of other species, where mice are usually going to be mainly with other mice or other non-predatory species. Rats exude a confidence and personal; strength. Mice seem to have to force confidence and personal strength or only can do so if they look like they are or actually are protected by a more powerful species. Again, Rats need none of that.

Of the order Rodentia, rats seem like the most likely to stand tall, and if called for alone, along side perennials like Canines, Felines, Dragons, and a few others.

I think I'll look into Hyaenidae next.