COOS BAY (AP) - State wildlife officials say they can't find a home for Windfall, a 150-pound bear who was living happily with a father and son in their backwoods home near Coos Bay.

Zoos, animal parks and sanctuaries across the country either don't meet Oregon standards for taking the bear, don't have room or simply don't want it, ODFW wildlife biologist Stuart Love said.

With release in the wild and a return to the family out of the question over public safety concerns, the possibility arises that the bear the two men raised from a cub could be killed.

“I really hope we don't have to euthanize that bear,” Love said. “I hope not. But it may come down to that.”

That won't happen if Coos County District Attorney Paul Burgett has a say.

Burgett said he hopes the state will loosen its requirements to see that the 2-year-old bruin gets into a safe, humane place.

“If the only people who can take the animal are people with a good facility but not a necessary permit, then I'd say, let them have it,” Burgett said.

“The message to the public here is that this bear's life is hanging by a thread,” Burgett said. “You take a bear out of the wild, you're dooming it.”

Most facilities across the country have all the black bears they need right now and save their space for rarer varieties, said Stacey Johnson, who coordinates orphan black bear adoptions through the American Zoo and Aquarium Society.

“Right now, at this moment, there's no room for it,” said Johnson, who works at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas.

“Every time I hang up my phone when I've had to say ‘no, we don't have any place for it,' it makes me sick,” Johnson said.

The bear is in a California state facility awaiting its fate.

Rocky Perkett said earlier that he and his son, Jonathan found the orphaned bear while logging. They raised it in their home, feeding it everything from pizza to Dr Pepper and treating it as “a daughter.”

Taking an animal out of the wild without a permit is illegal in Oregon.

State police seized the bear Oct. 24 after neighbors complained.

The men face possible misdemeanor wildlife charges.

Biologists had heard about Windfall and began looking for a home even before it was seized.

“Hope springs eternal, and I'm hoping the bear will be maintained alive long enough to (be placed),” Burgett said.

Even if biologists find a home for Windfall, the animal is so docile and aligned with humans that it could be trouble, Love said.

“The thing is so habituated to people, you can't even turn it loose with a bunch of other bears in a cage,” Love said. “They don't know how to react to them. There could be a fight.”

Love said the bear doesn't know how to survive in the wild.

“It all depends upon what the court decides,” Love said. “If they tell us to place it somewhere, I don't have a clue where.”