Decorate a Door campaign promotes animal adoption and local businesses

Decorated door promoting local business in support of Orillia SPCA's Home for the Holidays campaign.

The Orillia SPCA has just levelled up its Home for the Holidays campaign through festive decoration.

The Orillia Animal Centre is inviting local businesses to decorate a door at the centre to spread some holiday cheer while simultaneously promoting the campaign and the business.

Here’s how it works: the business can decorate the door however it likes and is encouraged to add its business logo and a little self promotion, while the centre will feature, tag, and thank the business on social media. It costs $25 per door and the decorated door will be on display for the month of December.

It’s a win-win for the centre and the local business.

In an email to CTV News, Community Outreach Coordinator Natalie Harris of the Orillia Animal Centre says there are 26 animals in Orillia and eight have been adopted so far. Harris says the festive addition to the campaign has been a hit with 25 businesses already signed up.

Staff will vote on their favourite decorated door and the winner will get a swag bag in the new year.

Several other branches of the OSPCA are following suit including Midland. In a post on Facebook, it says it has 48 animals needed to be adopted and they’ve already given homes to 28.

The campaign aims to have 500 animals adopted by Christmas across the 12 main animal centres in Ontario.