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Stuart's anthropomorphism is the result of lab experimentation.
  • Well, scientists have using white mice in experiments for years.
  • His parents were the ones who were experimented, and passed it onto him.

Snowball and Mr. Tinkles are from the same litter.
They're both the same breed, and have the same voice and temper.

Humans can understand Snowbell when he talks.
The Littles just ignore him most of the time because he tends to be a whiny Drama Queen. I thought this because of a scene from the end of movie 2 - when the Littles are headed home, Snowbell whines that he's sick of never getting any attention and claims that he's not returning home with them. Cue Mrs. Little calling out to him (in a perky but slightly annoyed tone) that she'll make him dinner when they get there, prompting him to join them. Additionally, Margolo can talk to humans and no one seems to bat an eye about it. It's possible that sentient talking animals are commonplace in this universe.
  • He was somewhat right about being annoyed in that movie, though. For one, despite having chickened out at some point, he was instrumental in both Stuart and Margalo being alive by the end of the film by finding Margalo trapped in a paint bucket in the top floor of a skyscraper and releasing her, when he went with Stuart to look for Margalo. He also was right next to the Littles, just outside the taxi, when they were out finding Stuart, not even paying attention to their own cat. Not to mention he was there because the Falcon had thrown him down from the skyscraper inside a paint bucket.
  • This theory is also backed up by Leo Vader after an exhaustive review of the movies, the animated spin off series, and the original source material.

In the world of the movies, sentient animals are seen as regular citizens, if rare.
In the first movie, while surprised at first, the Little Family wholeheartedly accepts Stuart as one of their own. The only exception is George, but even then, George's main problem seems to be that is he has trouble seeing Stuart as a brother, not the inherent absurdity of his parents adopting a literal mouse. No one else - the police, other animals, the orphanage, or any people in New York- seem put off by Stuart's presence. When two mice show up claiming to be Stuart's biological parents, the Littles are more sad to see Stuart leave then shocked at the two talking mice. The police even talk about a "mouse killer" while Stuart is missing, implying that murdering sentient mice is seen as an actual crime. Perhaps, in this world, sentient animals are an Unusually Uninteresting Sight that live their own lives under humans and only warrant mild surprise when they interact with them on the same level that Stuart does. Sometimes, interspecies adoption happens (going by the film's plot and the word of the lady at the orphanage, who even says that they try to discourage adoption between different species) but its typically rare because of the emotional dissonance it can cause, as Stuart spent the entire first film being afraid of not fitting it because he's not human.
  • Snowbell and the cats seem to be an exception, but it's also possible that animals, depending on how they're raised, have a capacity of whether humans can understand them or not. Snowbell, having lived like a regular house cat, has no real need to learn human-cat communication, and the cats in the alley way probably are too distant from humans to have learned. Stuart, on the other hand, being raised by humans his whole life in the inner city (the kids in the orphanage and later the Littles) likely picked up on how to talk to them. This is why Stuart can talk to both animals and humans.

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