An Idaho family is calling for a federal ban on a cyanide-spewing predator-control device that killed their Labrador retriever and left their teenage son inches from death.

Before last month, the Mansfields had never even heard of a cyanide bomb, the family told The Huffington Post.

Thats why when 14-year-old Canyon Mansfield was walking his dog, Casey, near the border of his familys property in Pocatello, Idaho, he simply thought he had stumbled upon the head of a sprinkler, and he reached down to touch it. When he did, the device popped in an explosion that knocked him to the ground and covered both boy and dog in an orange powder, the Idaho State Journal reported on March 17.