Wildlife officers euthanized a bear Tuesday morning that got involved in a “boxing match” with a 71-year-old man and ran off with its cub after the man’s wife hit the bear with a baseball bat, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

The 71-year-old man found the mother bear and her cub eating a loaf of bread in his kitchen at about 8:45 p.m. Monday in Pine, according to a news release.

The man was watching TV with his wife around 8:45 p.m. when he heard noises upstairs in the kitchen. As he turned the corner to the kitchen, he found himself facing a bear, and the man and the mother bear got involved in a “boxing match,” the release said.

The adult bear attacked the man, and the man punched the bear, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in a Facebook post.

The man’s wife rushed in and hit the bear with a baseball bat several times, forcing the bear and her cub to escape through the same screen door they had used to enter, the sheriff’s office said.

The man got several scratches and cuts from the incident but wasn’t seriously injured and the woman was uninjured, according to the sheriff’s post.

“This time of year, bears are filling their bellies with food to prepare for the coming winter so you’re more likely to see them out foraging. Please be safe and check out these good tips from CPW for living with bears in your neighborhood,” the sheriff’s office wrote.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials were informed about the bears and searched the area until about midnight, according to the release. Officers began searching again at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday with a dog team and tracked a bear that they then euthanized before 7 a.m., about 900 yards from the couple’s home. Officers did not find the cub.

CPW will send DNA samples from the euthanized bear for analysis to confirm if it is the same bear from the attack in the home.

For more information on how to be bear aware, go to cpw.state.co.us.