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I'm pretty sure it's actually wrong usage, and should be replaced with "Locate" in this context.

"Localize" has various meanings, but in a physical location sense is to restrict something to a particular area, e.g. "We successfully localized the fire to the Johnson farm so no other farms were damaged.".

I can't see a definition that is equivalent to "locate" or "find".

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I don't know what's idiomatic here as English is not my first language, but according to my dictionary "localize" can also mean "to find the position of something"

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/localize

Maybe it's British vs American English?

I looked at Merriam-Webster online, the snippet Google pulls from the OED and the Mac dictionary app which uses the New American Oxford.

"Locate" would lead to less confusion among readers. It unanimously has the right definition, and is a simpler word.

I think one of the reasons that one is not used because usages like "Simultaneous Location And Mapping" (instead of the "Simultaneous Localization And Mapping" that SLAM stands for) would read a bit strange... "location" is more commonly used to mean "the place" and not "the act of finding the place".

A better title would be either:

Locate your cat at home using...

Domestic Feline location using...

Depending on the level of techno-mumbo-jumbo the author is looking for.

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