If animals caught corona-virus would they be tested the same way as us?

Question: If animals caught corona-virus would they be tested the same way as us?
- Keywords:
  animals,
  COVID-19,
  virus
Asked by anon-307289 to John on 19 Jan 2022.
- John Tulloch answered on 19 Jan 2022:
  
  Quite a few animals now have been found to have caught COVID, including cats, mink and some species of deer. Some testing would be similar, PCR tests and whole genome sequencing would be done. But lateral flow tests would not be done

Question: If animals caught corona-virus would they be tested the same way as us?