I have a hamster now. Yes, I'm 24, I'm pathetic! LOL! Anyway, her name is Penny. I love her so much.

Here are a couple of pictures of her:





As you can see, it would be very very difficult for her to escape through the bars. She chews on them sometimes, but she never succeeds, which obviously is a good thing. The only think you have to watch out is to lock any door on the cage that the hamster could possibly escape from. They are escape artists and will get out any chance that they have.

I actually had that happen with Penny once. Christmas eve, I gave her food and pet her, and then went off to midnight mass at church. Well, I got home about an hour and a half later, and she had escaped from her cage because I forgot to lock the door. So, 2am on Christmas morning, I'm running around the house trying not to wake up people who were sleeping, and also find her. I found her all the way downstairs under the couch. She was alive and fine, but it scared me how she got all the way down there.

Also, another thing you can do if you are concerned with them escaping is putting them in a fish tank with a lid. I had a rat that lived in one for awhile, and he was fine. The hamster however, you definitely would need to put something heavy on top of the lid so they don't escape.