Oh wow TONS of replies. It seems that joining this community is one of the best things I've done. So from what I've read, by and large kiln dried pine doesn't seem to have much of an adverse affect on rats or snakes. For safety reasons if I decided to just use the pine as bedding for the rats and maybe aspen for my snakes to avoid any phenols do you guys think I would have a problem feeding the snake the rats?
Thanks a ton for everyones knowledge and input. I can't imagine how often this gets debated so thank you for bearing with me.