.susanorlean remembers Eugene DeLeon, whose passion for rattlesnakes was a guiding force in his life.
Rattlesnakes give most people the creeps. But there is a subset of people who find them inviting. Eugene DeLeon was frequently photographed cozying up with, and even smooching, rattlesnakes; he had no fear of them at all. His interest started early. His father, a security guard in the Texas oil fields, used to while away his shift catching snakes that wriggled by his post, and would bring them home for his children to admire before releasing them. The passion for snakes stuck with DeLeon.
Also like his father, DeLeon would catch snakes in the field and bring them home for his children to see. He always kept a few in a cage in the back yard, too. Treviño said that she would have been happy “to kiss those snakes goodbye.” But, as soon as DeLeon’s son, Eugene, Jr., was old enough, he joined Snakebusters, marking the start of a third generation of DeLeon snake fans. DeLeon’s wife, Simona, however, was not an enthusiast of the whole venomous-reptile thing .
But being a Snakebuster required a lot of face time with rattlers, and the risk was consequently amplified. Four years ago, at the Rattlesnake Roundup, Eugene, Jr., was bitten and ended up having to have a thumb amputated. DeLeon himself had been bitten in the past. Still, father and son persisted. The human-snake barrier continued to be breached, and house calls from around town came in regularly.
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