Fox "kits"?

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

"Fox CUBS" ?  Never heard that.  I've known 'kit' all my life.  Is there an isogloss somewhere?
Fritz

>>> wilson.gray at RCN.COM 02/20/05 01:57PM >>>
In a newspaper article about the taming of foxes, the author referred
to what I know as fox "cubs" as fox "kits." Fox "kits"?! Why not fox
"pups"? There's a species of vulpine known as a "kit fox." Perhaps the
writer had that in mind.

-Wilson