I gotta say, you folk surprise me - there's more tact open mindedness being excersised here than I was expecting in a furry discussion thread on Giant Bomb.
My personal stance, is there's a fine line of distinction between anthro and furry. It may blend together or overlap at the edges depending on what direction you take it with both art style and story content, but it's very possible to be one without the other (or at least anthro without furry). It's when you take the next big step into furry-dom, and the next big step after into the dark, seedy under belly of the internet, now that's an entirely new ball game.
Looking at your concept here, I'm seeing Redwall, I'm seeing Maus, I'm seeing any number of stories that have tread that familiar path before - I wouldn't worry about it being furry at all, unless you include a story arc where a frisky ferret lady tries to tempt the mouse knight (however, if that makes it in, I want a shout out). If you end up with a partial furry fan base, the worst that could happen is a few forums get devoted to fan art and you get more traffic as a result, but that's Rule 34 at work.
The 80's saw a huge boom in anthropomorphic cartoon characters of greater or lesser depth, and there were talking animals long before that. To reiterate what everyone else has said so far, do what you like (as long as it doesn't deliberately hurt anyone) and damn everyone else. I'm gonna steal the term pyromagnestir brought up, and just sign off saying at the end of the day, I think we're all a bit fur-curious to a degree.
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